A Play

Hope for the Earth
Good morning, dear teachers, and friends. Today, I, Prabhnoor, of class 6-C will present a play along with my
friends Kishika, Shelin, Misha, Reyansh, and Maryam. Our play is based on the school Theme of the Year
'Reclaiming Our Planet'. The name of our play is 'Hope for the Earth' So, let's start.
Narrator: You are about to enter the enchanted world of nature as we tell you the story of a girl called Diya
who lives in Mumbai and wants to save the earth.
Diya: I’m tired of this city Full of buildings so cold and dead. There are no trees or flowers. It’s crowded
with people instead
The roads are blocked with traffic jams the skies are grey with smog. The noise is just unbearable, and the
garbage stench is terrible
It’s just not fair.
James (her friend): Where is the world we’re supposed to know? Where are the trees? …. ….. The flowers
and the bees?
The yellow fields, the burning sun above, the bright blue sky, the pretty birds that fly
They often sang for people.
Where have they gone?
Diya: Why did the world become like this?

How can I make it what it used to be?
Tree: Hey, little children …

Diya: (looking around) We wonder who THAT was?
Tree: It’s me….
Diya: Can you really talk, or am I imagining it?
Tree: Yes, I can talk but only some people can hear me.
James: You want to say something to us?
Tree: You were singing about saving the earth. Do you really want to?
James: Yes, we want to … desperately.
Tree: Then maybe I can help you. Pluck a leaf from one of my branches. Hold it in the palm of your hands.
Then close your eyes and think of saving the Earth and you will be able to do it!
Diya: Oh, thank you, thank you.
For we all share this world of ours, and we need to protect it we need to start right now
Even though we may not know how ….
Just think how far out the ocean goes, from shore to shore, door to door. Think of the valleys, the
mountaintops the Earth never stops.
So deep, so high, with miles of sky Remember that we are all part of that pie.
So, keep the sea and the land, just the way that God has planned, just the way that God had planned
James: We must work hard to make this world beautiful again! Let’s take the leaf and think about saving
the earth.
Narrator: Diya and her friend reach out for the leaf, hold it in their hands and think about saving the earth
(There is a loud bang, and the lights go off.)

Narrator: Looks like they have reached another land.
(A group of children come dancing on to the stage wearing clothes made of newspaper strips and wearing
necklaces made of tins and cans and empty toothpaste tubes etc. – they dance like Baloo to the tune of ‘Bare
Necessities ‘from the movie Jungle Book)
NWP: (NO Waste people)

Look for the bare necessities
The simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
Old Mother Nature’s recipes
That brings the bare necessities of life
Diya: Where are we?? Who are these people??

James: What place is this?? What is this place called??
NWP: This is the Land of Bare Necessities, and we are the ‘No Waste People’ here …

NWP: There are no shops in this land, and no one buys anything ….
NWP: Now when you shop
And buy dresses and shoes
Junk jeweler and what have you ….
Just think where everything came from – honey??
Cause though you may be paying the money
Its Mother Earth with all of nature that ends up paying a price
James: How do Mother Earth and all of nature end up paying a price??
NWP: We’ll tell you how … Now when you buy a dress.
NWP: It’s made from cloth
NWP: Which is woven from thread
NWP: Which is spun from cotton
NWP: Which grows on these plants
NWP: And do you know how many forests were cut down to grow these plants??
NWP: On which grew the cotton

NWP: From which the thread was spun
NWP: From which the cloth was woven
NWP: From which this dress was made ….
Diya: Aha! we understand it all so clearly now. So, when we shop it’s doing the Earth a lot of harm
somewhere.
NWP: And there’s one more thing you must learn about our land.
NWP: We do not waste anything here …. nothing is thrown away. Everything is reused or recycled
including our garbage …. We just love our ‘TRASH!!

NWP sing:
Yes, we all love our trash,
And we always recycle all our waste

Cause we need to make our garbage less
Or our Earth will soon be covered with our mess
Put your plastic and paper waste all in the bins
Then recycle with cans and tins.
Don’t throw your stale food and vegetable peels
Make it into compost – it’s no big deal
This is food for the plants, that will make the earth green
Thus, the world will forever stay clean.
NWP: It takes plastic 500 years to decompose and break down.

Imagine that every time, that someone throws a plastic bag or a plastic bottle it will remain on the earth for
500 years!
Diya: That’s very frightening. We still have a lot to learn…. let’s see

where the leaf takes us next ...
Narrator: Diya reaches the LAST LANDS OF NATURE, and she is shocked to see what is happening
there. The first place she reaches are the Rainforests:
Rainforest Child-
We give you fresh air to breathe
Animals call us their home
From our plants and trees, you get food and medicines more

All the birds in all the trees
Every insect, every leaf
Fish and animals dance with me
Sustaining life for us all

Now it is very important to
Tell the people what we must do
Tell everybody that it’s not okay
To let the forests, get cleared away
To let the forests, get cleared away

James: Rainforests … why should we worry about rainforests -they’re so far away, and there’s nothing that
We can do.
Diya- I know that in these Rain Forests
That I may never see, Half the world’s plants, animals, and insects
Live in harmony. So much biodiversity
James: I know that trees are being cut, Faster than we know.
These trees are habitats where the creatures live, so now where will they go?
Diya: So, even though they’re far away, Rainforests I can’t see
But I can learn and understand Because the future starts with me!
Rainforest Child: Have you eaten a papaya?

A strawberry, an orange, a banana? A tomato, a capsicum, a peanut? A sweet potato, maybe a pineapple??
Rainforest Child: Well do you know where these were first found?
You guessed right – they were found in the rainforests!!!
The same with our medicines. So many plants are there yet undiscovered in our rainforests.
Diya: My goodness – there’s so much to see and learn yet – let’s move on.
(Diya and her friends hold the leaf.)

(A LOUD BANG !!!)
Narrator: Diya and her friends are now in a new habitat ……. let’s see where they’ve reached.…….
The Sea Child- We are the sea, the sea, the sea,
Just look at the sea world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
What more are you looking for?
Fish and oysters and eels,
And whales and sharks in the deep,
Dolphins that dive and leap,
There are so many creatures here
So much bio – diversity
Under the sea, under the sea

But now the humans are messing it up
With oil slicks from ships
And factories that pour
Toxic wastes by the shore,
And the mess gets more and MORE AND MORE!!

Diya: We are destroying EVERYTHING ON THIS EARTH!!
We’ve now understood it all ………
We’ve been through all the Lands of Nature ….
The Earth is such a beautiful place

That’s being threatened by humans
All the habitats are being destroyed by the hour
And animals are dying forever
James - So, we must learn to care

Not to waste, to use less and to share
To work hard to make people aware
For that’s the only way we can hope to save the earth
For that’s the only way we can hope to save the earth
Everyone: Thank you!

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Hope for the Earth

Diya: Why did the world become like this?

Tree: Hey, little children …

Even though we may not know how ….

(There is a loud bang, and the lights go off.)

NWP: (NO Waste people)

Diya: Where are we?? Who are these people??

NWP: On which grew the cotton

And we always recycle all our waste

NWP: It takes plastic 500 years to decompose and break down.

Diya: That’s very frightening. We still have a lot to learn…. let’s see

Rainforest Child: Have you eaten a papaya?

(Diya and her friends hold the leaf.)

The Earth is such a beautiful place

James - So, we must learn to care

Everyone: Thank you!

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