Note: All characters become water bodies with minimal props. The characters should try and use body, movement and sound to the best of their ability to convey the emotion of the character. It is ensemble theatre, so as many people can take part in the play. There is no lead role and roles can be interchanged with every performance.
Scene 1
This scene is largely expressed through exaggerated movements and expressions. There is no need for speech in this scene, except where it is mentioned.
General Body Meeting of Water Bodies
Let’s go flowing
Let’s go rowing
Let’s keep going
Let’s keep growing.
Let’s come together
And not fight forever
Let’s give a little
Take a little
Let’s give a little and
Take a little.
They should however, symbolize one body, one voice. Water bodies can be scattered across stage. Props may be used in this scene to represent the water bodies, left to the child’s imagination. The character sketch of each character comes out clearly in the tone of expression.
Water, Water everywhere, not a drop to drink
Water, Water everywhere, EVERYBODY needs to think
With Water, Water, nowhere, you may stink and sink,
Water, water nowhere, you are at the brink
Puddles, lakes and rivers
Oooh, oooh, oooh
What a pity, what a shame.
Blah, blah, blah..
There is no one else to blame.
(almost like a rap)
Everybody points a finger at somebody,
But somebody says it’s gotta be nobody,
Now, will anybody want to believe nobody…
Nobody wants to think that they are everbody..
Hahahhahahhahaaaahahhahat
Confusion, suspicion, delusion, illusion
It’s time for everybody to start a revision.
all characters gather on stage
Everybody pull up your socks
Or be prepared for many shocks
Let’s not waste and let’s take care
Without water, we’re nowhere
To brush, to wash, to cook and clean,
To grow, to breathe, we need to lean,
On you and all your many streams
This cannot be only a dream!
We’ll drink a little, save a little,
Use a little, reuse a little.
We’ll think before we use our taps,
We’ll plan for people across the maps.
Water, water, please don’t go,
Without you, we cannot sow,
We hope you trust us one last time,
This song is not only a rhyme.
