WEDDINGDANCE
By Amador Daguio
Website: https://www.storyboardthat.com/no/storyboard-skaperen
Philippines is a rich country filled with many different cultures, traditions and beliefs from our ancestors and one of these said beliefs has
something to do with marriage.
Long ago, in a mountain somewhere in the Philippines, there was a couple named Awiyao and Lumnay. They were married for a long time but
Awiyao, Lumnay's husband has to marry another girl named Madulimay, and the reason WHY, let us all find out as we go on a journey to the
past, witnessing what happened to Lumnay and Awiyao's lovestory.
AWIYAO: "I'm sorry this had to be done. I am really sorry. But neither of us can help it."
"Why don't you go out and join the dancing women?"
Awiyao held Lumnay on her Left Shoulder
"You should join” the dancers," PAUSE "as if--as if nothing had happened."
Awiyao stands
" If you really don't hate me for this separation, go out and dance. One of the men will see you dance well; he will like your dancing, he will
marry you. Who knows but that, with him, you will be luckier than you were with me."
LUMNAY "I don't want any man," PAUSE. "I don't want any other man."
AWIYAO: "You know very well that I won't want any other woman either. You know that Lumnay, don't you?
AWKWARD SILENCE
LUMNAY : "Yes, I know,"
AWIYAO: "It is not my fault, You cannot blame me; I have been a good husband to you."
LUMNAY : "Neither can you blame me"
AWIYAO: "No, You have been a good wife to me... It's only that a man must have a child.
LUMNAY : "You know that I have done my best."
AWIYAO: "Yes,
I know."
"I came home, because I did not find you among the dancers. Of course, I am not forcing you to join my wedding ceremony. I came to tell you
that Madulimay, although I am marrying her, can never become as good as you are. You are one of the best wives in the whole village."
LUMNAY : "That has not done me any good, has it?"
Awiyao held her face but Lumnay's eyes looked away
He let go of her face, and she bent to the floor
AWIYAO: "This house and the field I dug out will all be yours. I will give them to you."
LUMNAY : "No, I have no use for any of that"
He looked at her, then turned away, and became silent. They were silent for a time.
LUMNAY : "Go back to the dance; They will wonder where you are, and Madulimay will not feel good.
Go back to the dance."
AWIYAO: "I would feel better if you could come, and dance---for the last time."
LUMNAY : "You know that I cannot."
AWIYAO: "Lumnay, if I did this, it is because of my need for a child. You know that life is not worth living without a child. The men have mocked
me behind my back. You know that."
LUMNAY : "I know that."
She bit her lips now, then shook her head wildly, and sobbed.
"CUTE" NARRATOR XD: Lumnay had thought of the seven harvests that passed, the high hopes they had in the beginning of their new life
together, the day he took her away from her parents across the roaring river, on the other side of the mountain. It was quite an exhausting trip
but both of them were happy... Happy that nothing in this world can measure. Happy and Deeply In Love back then. He was the most beautiful
Man that she has ever seen--he was strong and for that she had lost him.
She flung herself upon his knees and clung to them and Cried.
LUMNAY : "Awiyao, Awiyao, my husband, I did everything to have a child... But I am useless, I must die."
AWIYAO: "It will not be right to die,"
Awiyao Hugged her in his arms
LUMNAY : "I don't care about the fields," she said. "I don't care about the house. I don't care for anything but you. "
AWIYAO: "If you die it means you hate me. You do not want me to have a child. You do not want my name to live on in our tribe."
"If I do not try a second time, it means I'll die. No one will inherit my name."
"And If I fail... I'll come back to you. Then both of us will vanish from the life of our tribe."
LUMNAY : "I'll keep my beads, I'll keep them because they stand for the love you have for me, I love you.
EXTRA TRIBE PEOPLE: "Awiyao! Awiyao! O Awiyao! They are looking for you at the dance!"
AWIYAO: "I am not in hurry."
LUMNAY : "The elders will scold you. You had better go."
AWIYAO: "Not until you tell me that it is all right with you."
LUMNAY : "It is all right with me."
AWIYAO: "I do this for the sake of the tribe,"
LUMNAY : "I know,"
He went to the door
LUMNAY : "Awiyao!"
CUTE" NARRATOR XD: He stopped as if suddenly hit by a spear. It pained him to leave. She had been wonderful to him. What was it that made a
man wish for a child? Suppose he changed his mind?
Why did the unwritten law demand, anyway, that a man, to be a man, must have a child to come after him? And if he was fruitless--but he loved
Lumnay. It was like taking away of his life to leave her like this.
LUMNAY : "Awiyao, it is hard!"
She gasped, and she closed her eyes and huried her face in his neck. (Hugged XD)
EXTRA TRIBE PEOPLE: "Awiyao! Awiyao! Come out now!
Lumnay's grip loosened, Awiyao Exits.
Lumnay sat while Crying
♫Gangsas Beat Background♫;
LUMNAY : "It is not right."
Lumnay stopped Crying
LUMNAY : "I would go to the dance. I would go to the chief of the village, to the elders, to tell them it was not right. Awiyao was mine; nobody
could take him away from me. Let me be the first woman to complain, to denounce the unwritten rule that a man may take another woman. I
would tell Awiyao to come back to me.
Lumnay Exits
CUTE" NARRATOR XD: She made for the other side of the village where the dancing was but she stopped. What if somebody had seen her
coming? She did not have the courage to break into the wedding feast. Lumnay walked away from the dancing ground, away from the village.
Fear started eating her courage, the courage she had for Awiyao. The courage that might be the only hope she has to redeem her love, her
Awiyao.
