We kids have performed street plays on M.G. Road at Food World, at Cauvery emporium and opposite Pizza Hut. We now present you our street play.
Background settings : A House - Mother / Children
Mother [Vishesh] : There is so much garbage here. I have been asking you all for last 2 days to throw it out. Come immediately and take it .
Child 1[Sourav] : You go , I am fed up of doing it all the time. I am really tired.
Child 2 [Harshit]: No. You go, this morning I went to bring the milk.
Fighting
Mother [Vishesh] : Stop fighting - both of you, throw it out.
Plastic Bag Falls at the center of stage
Plastic Bag [Safdhar]: Ow, my body hurts. They always do this to me. They don't realise how important I am. I am strong and don't tear easily. Nobody can destroy me. I can carry all sorts of things. I don't get wet. You can get so many like me for a little money.
I am strong !! Nobody can destroy me.
Cow [Hari]: (walking around) I am so hungry. I hope someone has thrown out something nice for me to eat. Ah! there is a big bag . Must be having lot of eatables inside it.
Cow eats the Packet and falls down and dies.
Children walk in.
Child 1 [Sourav] : Oh my God ! Come and see there is a dead cow here.
Other children - where, where?
Child 2 [Harshit] : How did it happen?
Child 1 [Sourav] : You know what? The cow ate the plastic bag and fell down and died.
Child 3 [Karan]
: Poor cow - if only it knew how the plastic bag could choke its stomach and kill her.
Children: Let us see what is in the bag that makes the cow die.
Lets pull it - what it stretches and stretches.
Ok Ok stamp it, stamp it. What it does not break.
I know lets burn it.
Go , go get a match box.
Setting it on fire.
All start coughing.
Paper bag and cloth bag come in.
Paper bag [Sourav] : See , we have been telling you for so long to use us and not the polybag. But you won't listen.
Polybag [Safdhar] : I stay on and nobody can destroy me.
Paper bag [Sourav] : True , you stay on and choke the sewerage lines and block off air to plant roots and earthworms suffocating them to death. We mix with mother earth or can be recycled to become fresh bags again.
Cloth bag [Harshit] : Yes and when people try and destroy you by burning , you create toxic fumes causing cancer and lung diseases.
Polybag [Safdhar] : I am so strong that I can carry heavy weight.
Cloth bag [Harshit] : Stop bragging, I can carry much more weight even without stretching like you. In fact, I can even carry you - come jump into me and let the world live healthily without you.
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