ROBIN
(drawing on the ground.)
They’ve taken Tommy of No
Consequence! This will not stand. It is time to plan our prison break. Shirley is getting more detailed plans but
for now, we’ll approach from the north.
Friar Tuck is in charge of southern diversion but the bulk of the Merry
Men will approach from this point.
MUCH
Um. I’m sorry.
ROBIN
What is it, Much?
MUCH
It’s the term Merry Men.
ROBIN
You’re thinking why are we
Merry when we’re attacking? But we can
be. I want us all to thoroughly enjoy
our mischief as well as our bloodletting.
Have fun out there, men.
MUCH
Actually, it’s the “men” part.
ROBIN
What do you mean?
MUCH
I’m not—I mean I don’t feel
like a man.
ROBIN
Okay.
MUCH
I don’t want to dress like a
man or talk like a man or drink like a man.
Or kill like a man. I just don’t
identify with all that comes with manhood and manliness. So I want you all to
know, I’m not a man anymore.
WILL
Are ye sayin’ you’re a lady,
Much?
MUCH
Not a woman neither. I think that I’m not a man or a woman. Neither of those things feels like who I am.
LITTLE JOHN
What’s happening, Robin?
ROBIN
So what would you like to be
called?
MUCH
Just Much. I’m a person.
A human being.
WILL
You’re Much The Miller’s
Son. You can’t change who you are. That’s who you’ve always been.
MUCH
Right. That too.
Don’t call me Much The Miller’s Son.
Call me Much The Miller’s Child.
ROBIN
Okay.
MUCH
And instead of saying him when
you’re talking about me, say, “They or them.”
WILL
Are there two of you, Much?
MUCH
I know it’s not ideal.
ALANNA
We could say “he/she.”
MUCH
No but I’m not a he or a
she. Just say “they.” It’s fine. It’ll be fine.
ROBIN
What about Merry Men
then? Should I say, Merry Men and also
Much?
MUCH
Maybe Merry Personages?
ALANNA
Merry people?
WILL
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. People can’t just stop being one thing and
start being another thing.
MUCH
That’s not—
ALANNA
Yes they can. You can wake up in love. You can wake up to thinking a new way you
never thought. All sorts of things could
happen.
LITTLE JOHN
Can it?
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