WORTHY

LADY BRACKNELL
This is preposterous! To think that I, the seminal lead of this piece…

ALGY
Oh Aunt Augusta, you are not.

LADY BRACKNELL
Everyone comes for Lady Bracknell, and you know it!

WINCE
I'm sorry, Jax, I see now that I was trying to hold on to something…

JAX
Before you say it
Before we tie the loose ends.
Hang in the balance,
Before we make amends.
We are, I am, you are worthy –

LADY BRACKNELL
(Protesting.) We are here to discuss marriage and respectability —
love has nothing to do with it whatsoever.

ALGY
I think that's where you're wrong, Lady Bracknell… Love is at the root of it all.

SLOUCH
Or must be.

GWYN
Maybe we marry
JAX
Maybe we're gonna live that bliss.
GWYN
Maybe we part ways
GWYN & JAX
But let's hold on to this.
JAX
We are, I am, you are worthy.
GWYN & JAX
We are
JAX
I am
GWYN
You are
GWYN & JAX
Worthy
JAX
Worthy of love.
GWYN & JAX
Worthy of love.

WINCE
If we cling too tightly to who we were —

SLOUCH
we'll never give ourselves enough room to grow into who we are.

JAX & CECILE
Keep your confession
Tied in a tidy bow.
There's no confession
That takes in what I know
CECILE & ALGY
We are
CECILE
I am
ALGY
You are worthy
SLOUCH & WINCE
We are
SLOUCH
I am
WINCE
You are
SLOUCH & WINCE
Worthy
JAX, GWYN, ALGY, CECILE, SLOUCH & WINCE
Worthy of love.
JAX & SLOUCH
Worthy
JAX, GWYN, ALGY, CECILE, SLOUCH & WINCE
Worthy of love.
CECILE, GWYN, JAX & SLOUCH
We're all made of the baggage we carry.
Burdened by our buried secrets, but maybe
GWYN & JAX
We are
SLOUCH
I am
JAX, GWYN, ALGY, CECILE, SLOUCH & WINCE
You are worthy
Worthy of love.
WINCE
Worthy,
JAX, GWYN, ALGY, CECILE, SLOUCH & WINCE
Worthy of love.
JAX
We're all just souls trying to survive
JAX, CECILE & WILDES
Lying
WILDES
Ill at ease,
ALL
Until we fling our arms wide
And we arrive
We are, I am, you are worthy
CECILE, GWYN, JAX & SLOUCH
We are all made of baggage we carry.
Burdened by our buried secrets, but
ALL
Maybe
We are, I am, you are worthy,
Worthy of love.
WILDES
We are
JAX
I am
GWYN
You are
ALL
Worthy.