The next part is going to be all in dumb-show, because it's in the fifteenth century, and that's how they used to play things in the fifteenth century, when they played heaps of Harlequinades... and Uncle and I and the actors are nothing if not correct. (UNCLE EDWARD: True.) But first we are going to skip an awful lot, all the part about the Early Ages, and the Middle Ages and all about how the gods gradually became actors... (UNCLE EDWARD: Better tell them.) Well, it's rather difficult to understand. But you know if you stop believing in a thing, such as fairies, or that you like chocolate, or that your Uncle's fond of you... after a bit it somehow isn't there any longer. That's what nearly happened to the gods. But Mercury knew that if people won't believe a thing when you say it's real, they'll just as good as believe it and understand it a great deal better when it only seems make-believe. And that's Art. And as the easiest art in the world is the art of acting... I hope they didn't hear (She wags back her little head to the proscenium.)... the gods became actors.

Alice Monologue from The Harlequinade: An Excursion

Rehearse Alice's monologue