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Scene:01
(All of the Artists of the drama towards to the place, where the drama held)
Thanthanath thaana thana thane }
Thana thaana thanthanath thaanaane}
Everybody will together from vary sides, with a sinthu walking by singing this song.
There after they will sing and dance below mentioned song, standing like a chained round.
(Song}
We will dance with jumping and jumping
We all friends together here
Like beautiful flowers
We will dance with love.
[Thanthanaththaana]
After finishing the song, showing two scenes of in two houses and situating Father, Mother, and children
From a house,
A girl: Father, I go to play.
A boy: I too go to play. (Fro the same house)
A boy: [In the place where play] lets call sister Wawi and Thanu to play.
A girl: ya, ya, call.
A boy: Wawi………… [Same boy]
Hei Thanu…………………
Thanu: [From the next house] ya ……………..
A girl: Come to play, we have brought a kite.
Wawi & Thanu: [Get readying to come to the place of play]
Mother: They calls, these are about to go.
Wawi & Thanu: Mummy, mummy, shall we go to play. [Running to the place where playing]
Thanu: Oh! What a beauty, which did this kite.
A girl: I and younger brother did this.
Thanu: Okay, okay, you keep the thread, I take the kite. [Say to the girl and imitate
According to that]
Thanu: [Asking that] may I leave it, may I leave it, [After taking the kite to away]
A boy: Leave it, when blowing.
A girl: Okay, leave it, leave it.[ They will imitate like playing with a kite, at that time the singers will sing the below mentioned song, children will enjoy with dancing ]
Singers:- (Song)
Thananana thananana }
Thananaa thananaa } 02
Thananana thanananana }
A boy: Play the kite, play the kite.
Kite flies, Brother See, brother see,
See that flying up
Kite flies, sister see, sister see,
See that flying up
Brother come running, Come running, Come running,
Come play with kite.
Sister comes running, Come running, Come running,
Come play with kite.
[Thananana]
(Children will stand in a round shape with moving)
A girl: Here, keep this thread. I will come back after drinking water.[ She will run ]
Singers: Thananana
A girl: Give me, give me the kite.[ She will ask after come back]
A boy: You played long time, didn’t you? I just play.
Singers: Thananana
Thanu: [To the boy who playing the kite] Lets give will you me, just I too will play. [
Playing after asking]
Singers: Thananana
Mother: [From the second house]
Hei, Thanu……………… how long you are playing? Come here, don’t play in the sunlight.
Thanu: Just now I got the kite; I will come after little play.
Mother: Come and go after having this.
[At that time]
Thanu: Mother calls, I will come back after listen to her.[he will hand over the kite to another one and go towards to home]
Singers: Thananana
Thanu: [Thanu after arriaval]
Playing kite is enough, we will play making dolls by clay.[ Imitating like binding the kite in the fence]
Children: let’s come to collect clay. [They will move to four sides by saying that]
Singers: Thanthanath thaananath thaananath thanthana}
Thanthanath thaanaane } 02
Lets make some hand crafts by the little hands} 02
Lets make more beautiful dolls } 02
We made dolls not only by fabric but also
By the weaving thread
Sister comes by run and walks
Brother comes by run and walks.
[Thanthana] 02
[When the song broadcast, one boy will imitate like a clay doll and another boy will imitate like clay doll makers. Finally they will enjoy with dancing around the doll with clapping.] There after,
A boy (Ajanthan): making doll is enough, let’s play another game.
A girl (Waksala): Then take the doll to our house.
Thanu: Is it? All are to your house.
[Then the children will imitate as keeping the doll into the Waksala’s house. Again they will reach the place where play.]
A girl (Waksala): Then what do we play?
3rd boy (Kokithan): Let’s play Kapady.
Waksala: Okay, okay, draw the line.
Children: [They will start to draw the line.]
Singers: Thaanaane thana thaanaane }
Thaana thanthanaththaanaane } 02
[Children will play Kapadi, in this play children will cover the boy who entered into the line.]
Singers: He is entering into the box,
Saying Kapadi, Kapadi.
Others caught him
In the box, after waiting.
A boy: Leave me, Leave me,
Leaved boy: Why did you ask me, to leave you? I would have touched the line.
A boy 5: It’s seemed to be killed you that are why I said you.
Mother 1: Oh, son come here, playing is enough.
Mother 2: Thanushan, Wawi, Ajanthan, Waksala, you too come.
Children: Play is enough, we will play tomorrow.
[Children go to houses.]
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[Children will appear in two houses in each house 3, they will imitate like doing varies works in the house environment.]
(Bathing, studying, eating (having), writing, doing house works etc.) Then,
Singers: Our joint living with mother, father, elder brother, elder sister,
Younger brother, younger sister, and relations is natural and fruitful for ever- 02
Fulfilled with love, this is more beautiful - 02
Strong, there are so many colures – 02
[Our joint living…………………] Singers will sing this song and move slowly.
At that time with the Parai sound one explainer will appear in the middle of the place where drama hold, from the out side.
(Parai is a traditional musical instrument. It’s like a drum’s music.)
Then the artists will stand on the attention position.
Explainer: How did change to artificial this colorful natural life?
How did demolish this life?
[He will move from there after asking these questions with the Parai sound.]
Scene 03.
[One Artist will appear from a house with deep cry.]
Father: Oh! Lady, (Colloquial word in Tamil)
Mother: Oh! God, don’t beat me………. don’t beat me………. every day you beats me after liquoring.
Children: Will cry with the mother.
Father: Are you a wife, why I married you, I can’t live with you. [He will get out from the house with this version.]
Daughter: Father, Father [She will attempt to catch father’s hand.]
Father: You also will be like your mother, I don’t care you go with your mother.
[Pull them aside with this version.]
This scene will go in attention and scene will start from another side.
[It will start to hear firing sounds it’s like a war, Then the persons of house No 02 will run every where, after they will be there with sad and cry alone. After little bit of time this scene also will go to attention. ]
Singers: Laala laala laala laalaa laala laalaa laalaalaa
Laala laala laala laalaa laala laalaa laalaalaa
Star flowers are every where in the sky
But there is no hand to pick and wear it.
Refuge children are every where in the earth
But there is no one to take care.
[Children will move slowly with singing this song. Again it will start to hear the firing sound then the children will hands up and noise that “rescue us, rescue us”. With this noise children will stand in a round shape with moving and situate a scene like living in the Caring centre. Now in this scene it will be shown that, children will function like a machine according to the bell sounds which related to the time table of Caring centre.]
Bell sound 1: The scene of every one get up and have a wash in two parts.
Bell sound 2: Coming and sitting quietly.
Bell sound 3: Doing the Meditation every one.
Bell sound 4: Having the breakfast every one.
Bell sound 5: Studying the subjects every one.
Bell sound 6: Going to the School in a line.
[Children will come one by one in a round shape and sit. Then a western music will hear. At that time some versions will hear such as go in the line, go neatly, don’t go out of the line, go without speak.]
Bell sound 7: Having a wash.
Bell sound 8: Doing Meditation.
Bell sound 9: Eating lunch.
Bell sound 10: Studying the subjects. [Now the supervisor will supervise the children who study with a cane. At that time he will notice a boy who sleeps. Then he will go near by him and punish him.]
Bell sound 11: Every one will go sleep.
Singers: Laala…………….. [Imitating like a lady walking with carrying two heavy parcels in two hands.] Then,
One person: Sister, sister, where do you go?
One person: It’s to you; Today there is a wedding at your house, isn’t it? Where do you go with parcels in hands?
The lady: She will move from there with this answer, yes, yes, there is a wedding. But there are lot of rice and curry are over, so I take all those to the Home children.
Then,
Voice 1: If give food to Home children, our passed away spirits will be peacefully. (Shanthy)
Voice 2: As well as grace also will be received.
Scene 04.
[With the Parai sound, (Parai is a traditional musical instrument. It’s like a drum’s music.) One person will appear in the middle.] The stood person,
Follower of religion 1: Our religion is a religion. Our religion culture and habits must be expanded all over the world. What can be done for that? [Sitting in the attention after this version.]
Follower of religion 2: Our religion is a religion. The oldest religion in this country. Our religion culture and habits goes down now days. It can’t be allowed like this. To whom and how train this habits.
[He will sit in the attention position after this version. At that time the Parai sound (Parai is a traditional musical instrument. It’s like a drum’s music.) Will be heard and stopped.
After stopped,
The two followers of religion in the same time.
Wow, the way has been founded that, let’s train our religion’s culture and habits to the refuge children. [With the Maththala sound (Maththalam is a traditional musical instrument in the cultural music.) two followers of religion will come around the children who are in attention position and sit in the attention position in one place.]
Voice 1: No non-vegetable.
Voice 2: Only vegetable.
Voice 3: No meat.
Voice 4: Only vegetable
[Those sounds will appear.]
Singers: Laala laala ……………………..
Explainer 2: [He will come to the middle of the stage with the movements and starts to speak.]
Helping to the helpless is good, Happy, Appreciable, but it can’t be accepted for ever that, wishing to control, insisting more rules, and feeding religion based thoughts in the name of helping. These are threat to fruitful human life. It is against to the healthy life.
Singers: There is a highest justice all over the world }
There is no lack for lectures }
Day and knight comes and goes } 02
There is no light to refuge children. }
[Star flowers…………Laala laala………]
Explainer 3: [He will come to the middle with the movements for the Parai and starts to speak.]
How to make it natural this life, which demolished and changed to artificial? How to change it colorful? [He will raise the question and move.]
Then,
Singers: Lets we ask a life without war in the house too.(02)
Lets we ask a life without war in the country too.(02)
Two boys: We need a father, who never beat to our mother and never leave us alone.
Singers: Lets we ask a………………….
Children: We need a fathers, who never tougher to our mothers and never leave us helpless.
Singers: Lets we ask a………………….
Children: This worst war must come to an end, which posses us to alone and helpless.
Singers: We want to live
in our house forever,
We want to live
in our house forever,
(Laala laala laala)
We want to live the nature’s gift
That, the fruitful life jointly with happy,
We want to live jointly with happy.
(Laala laala laala)
With the surrounding of mother, father,
Elder brother, elder sister,
Younger brother, Younger sister,
With the enjoy of relations,
With the growing of love.
(Laala laala laala)
This drama written and performed in the Street drama training camp among the children in Homes which was conducted in the Sarwodaya Training Centre of Saththurukondan, Batticaloa, since 17.04.2008 till 20.04.2008.
The workshop was coordinated and conducted by Thirdeye Local Knowledge and Skill Activists Group.
