Category Archives: Lao Tzu
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Gaining the Pass a play about why Lao Tsu wrote the Tao Te Ching By George Harvey ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ Copyright © 1991. 2013. George Harvey One of George Harvey’s Blogs
Characters
Lao Tzu (Li Erh), the philosopher, a small man of about ninety. Wen (Kuan Yin), the Warden of the Pass, a large and powerful man in his mid forties. Yung, a helper of Lao Tzu, a young man. Teng, Wen’s … Continue reading
Gaining the Pass – Scene 1
China, ca. 375 B.C. The scene is outdoors, in front of a border station in a pass leading into the mountain wilderness. The building itself is stage right, and has a door into its office. A guard stands at the … Continue reading
Gaining the Pass – Scene 2
Same setting, the next day. As the scene opens, it is dark out. There is a guard at the door of the office and Lao Tzu is lying down on the customs table. Gradually the lights brighten. A cock crows. … Continue reading
Gaining the Pass – Scene 3
Scene 3 opens the same way scene 2 did. During this scene peasants, merchants, and/or bearers, singly or in pairs, enter, cross to the guard at the door, continue across stage, and exit in normal manner of customs business, at … Continue reading
Gaining the Pass 