NOAH’S SPACESHIP (GLOBAL WARMING-RELATED DRAMA GAME)
(drama about global warming)
Written & Directed by Hakan Atalay
(drama about global warming)
Written & Directed by Hakan Atalay
SCENE 1
NARRATOR (NOAH)
Once upon a time, while looking for the past, today, until yesterday there was a world filled with very green forests, clean waters and a blue sky with thousands of birds. I said “it was” because they aren’t available now. We are living the day in which there isn’t even a single green tree and a sip of water and also oxygen is left only for two days. We have polluted our beautiful world, environment, air, water with our own hands. We have consumed them and we have left a deserted world and a planet in which even a single living creature cannot live and now we are going on a journey with our spaceship to a new world.
Goodbye my old world, forgive us.
Hope to wake up one day, have a nice sleep.
(Noah lies and sleeps)
LIGHTS OFF
ANNOUNCEMENT: Dear Noah’s spaceship passengers! Our spaceship will take off soon. Please wait in the waiting cabin and also please do not throw away your litters in the spacecraft. You can throw them away where you are. Have a nice flight.
(Noah sleeps at the corner. All players get on the stage wait in the waiting cabin.)
1ST PERSON: offff!! How long are we going to wait? I cannot breathe in this world.
2nd PERSON: Yes, friend. I’m getting bored, too. I wish we could get out of this place soon.
3RD PERSON: When is this ship going to take off?
2nd PERSON: According to the announcement it is supposed to take off right now. What happened? Is there a problem?
3RD PERSON: No, friend. I am very thirsty. I wish we could drink water as much as we like.
4TH PERSON: Be patient. There is a lot of water in the planet we are going to. It is surrounded by trees.
2ND PERSON: Yes, yes. I’d really like to be there. I will go on picnics and make barbecues as often as I want.
1st PERSON: Be careful with the forest fire.
2ND PERSON: It doesn’t matter. There are trees everywhere. It is said that nothing serious happens with burning of a couple of trees.
1ST PERSON: What happens if all of the trees burn? We can get on the spaceship and find another planet.
(All laugh.)
4TH PERSON: I will start with establishing a factory and producing the most qualified fur for you.
1st PERSON: Are there any animals that we can benefit from their fur?
4TH PERSON: They say there are a lot of animals in the new planet.
1ST PERSON: If there aren’t, we can get on the spaceship and go to another planet.
3RD PERSON: Thank God, we are freed from this world.
2ND PERSON: Oh yes! What a weak world it is. Its air and water get dirty at once.
1ST PERSON: Not at once! Don’t be so cruel.
2ND PERSON: You can stay if you want.
1ST PERSON: According to the experts, the world will be destroyed in two days. There is oxygen for two days in the atmosphere. I don’t want to die here. The clean air of the new planet is waiting for me to be polluted.
3RD PERSON: If the new planet gets dirty, get on the spaceship and go to a new planet. (Laughs) Is it your joke, is it funny? (what does it really mean?) it is actually tragicomic. It means, there is no problem if we make the next planet dirty, we can find another planet. It will always go on like this.
1ST PERSON: Please don’t make a joke. Do the best thing you do and pollute the environment. (Laughs)
2ND PERSON: Shall we keep some of the litters as souvenirs?
4TH PERSON: No need. I can provide as many souvenirs as you want when we go to the new planet. Besides they are free. (All laugh)
ANNOUNCEMENT: Dear passengers. Our spaceship will take off soon. Please quickly get on the spaceship.
3RD PERSON: Friends be quick, let’s get out of this rotten world as soon as possible.
1ST PERSON: See you in the spaceship (Gets on the ship)
2ND PERSON: Yes my big world. It is the end. It is our last meeting. I don’t say take care because you have only two days. (Gets on the ship)
3RD PERSON: I hope the new planet we are going is as we hope. What if we couldn’t find a world like you? Then sorry for us. (Gets on the planet)
4TH PERSON: I will take a breathe in this world for the last time. (He coughs as soon as he breathes) (Laughing) We have lived well in such a bad weather. (Gets on the ship)
ANNOUNCEMENT: Dear passengers countdown for launching has started. Please fasten your belts. 5 4 3 2 1 0
LIGHTS ON AND OFF, THE SPACECRAFT TAKES OFF
LIGHTS OFF
SCENE 2
LIGHTS ON
(Noah is still sleeping)
(Donkey, dog, cat, rabbit all four get on the stage breathless and tired.)
DOG: Woof woof. We have missed the spaceship. Human beings acted selfishly again.
RABBIT: Haven’t you still recognized them? Human beings don’t care for anyone other than themselves.
CAT: I wish there was a human being here now. I would like to play with him. (The cat shows its sharp teeth and claws).
RABBIT: Leave those back friends. What are we going to do now? We have two days left. We have to get out of here.
DONKEY: We must find water and food immediately. I cannot stand hunger and thirst anymore.
DOG: I have an idea. Let’s pray for the rain.
CAT: If a dog’s pray was accepted, it would rain bones.
DOG: Cat, be animal, don’t humanize or I will bite you.
CAT: If you are an animal, do it and don’t hesitate.
DOG: Don’t push me.
RABBIT: Okay leave this cat and dog fight. We already have enough problems.
DONKEY: Friends, let’s behave ourselves. (He sees the sleeping Noah) hey! What’s that?
RABBIT: Is it a human?
DONKEY: Yes, there is a human here.
CAT: Finally, my prayers are accepted. Oh dear, how beautifully he is sleeping. (I will kill him. ) – can we get rid of this part ? and put this one instead: I can’t wait to entertain myself with him (The cat shows its sharp teeth and claws).
DOG: hey hey stop. Leave it to me.
(At the same time Noah wakes up and gets scared when he sees donkey, dog, cat and rabbit besides him.)
NOAH: Oh my God! Who are you?
DOG: We are your death.
NOAH: Please let me go, my spaceship will take off soon. I have to catch that.
RABBIT: Here you are humankind. Catch it if you can fly.
NOAH: Fly..? How..? Where will I fly?
CAT: Your spaceship took off hours ago. Sleep well humankind.
NOAH: Did the spaceship leave?
DONKEY: Yes, it did.
RABBIT: You will be our guest till the end of the world. Sorry, we cannot treat you to anything as you didn’t leave anything.
DOG: Why are we waiting till the end of the world? Let’s punish him now.
NOAH: But what did I do to you? Why are you punishing me?
CAT: He asks as if he didn’t know.
DONKEY: You have burnt our forest and destroyed them.
NOAH: Who? Me?
ALL: YES YOU… ALL MANKIND.
RABBIT: You have polluted our air with the smoke of your factories.
NOAH: Who? Me?
ALL: YES YOU… ALL MANKIND.
DOG: You have polluted our water, seas, rivers and lakes and left a world in which even a single living creature couldn’t manage to live.
NOAH: Who? Me?
ALL: YES YOU… ALL MANKIND.
CAT: Are you happy now for what you did to our beautiful world. You can go to another planet by your high technological spaceships. Have you ever thought about the survivors? There isn’t another planet we can go.
ALL: WE WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU AS YOU HAVE POLLUTED OUR ENVIRONMENT.
NOAH: (Upset) We, human beings, give value after we have lost our valuable things. It doesn’t sound English, our proposal is “only appreciate things when we miss them” Being very sorry is not the solution for our problem. We behaved like a donkey.
DONKEY: Shut up! Otherwise, you will get a kick. You have destroyed my dear world and then you put the blame on me as if I behaved like a donkey!
NOAH: So sorry! Just to make conversation…
DONKEY: If only you were like a donkey like me and our world wouldn’t be destroyed!
CAT: Aiaiai… We are all donkey!
DONKEY: Don’t become like a human!
RABBIT: Our problem is really important. Give up scrapping. Our time is running up. We won’t have enough oxygen to breathe very soon. We have to find a solution immediately.
DOG: I won’t take a step before biting this human being. Let’s take the revenge on him for what they did to us and to our dear world. After that, we‘ll be taken up with our troubles.
RABBIT: Will everything be OK when we punish this human being?
CAT: We won’t die with eyes open at any rate. / At least we won’t die without trying to take revenge on human beings.
(The cat jumps at Noah. The others meddle into.)
DONKEY: Friends! Calm down, please! What are we? We’re surely animals and should behave like animals. We never and ever wipe out anything as human beings did.
RABBIT: Donkey is right. Our destiny is unavoidable. We all share the common fate.
NOAH: Dear friends, just give me another chance. Give me one more chance for what I’ve done and we have done. I’m very sorry.
RABBIT: Yes, that’s right.
NOAH: We can breathe with some clean air. I mean….
DONKEY-RABBIT: Yes….
NOAH: A plant that is called medusa.
DOG: MEDUSA?
NOAH: Yeah! The oxygen medusa cleans the air.
DONKEY: Then, what?
NOAH: Our world can be rescued in the event that we find and reproduce this plant. / I think it should be like that: “Our world can be rescued if we find and grow this plant.”
CAT: Stop it for God’s sake! Let me deal with this liar in a minute.
RABBIT: Stop and calm down the cat! Suppose that we find it. How do we keep it alive as we don’t have any water?
NOAH: There must be water somewhere in here! We can find it!
DOG: There hasn’t been any water left in the Earth. Look around! There is desert everywhere.
DONKEY: I think we have no other choice apart from trusting him.
CAT: Friends! In my opinion, it’s pointless. Let’s live our last days like humans enjoying ourselves.
RABBIT: Friends! Let’s make a plan and find this medusa.
NOAH: We can find it easier and quicker if we separate from each other.
CAT: Are you thinking of escaping? Is the whole plan for that?
NOAH: No, surely not for that. I think it would be faster.
DOG: Why should we trust you? Look at our dear world. How terrible is it?
DONKEY: I can look for the plant with him.
CAT: I think you shouldn’t stay with him. He’ll make sausages from you. Look at his eyes. They are hovering around.
DOG: I can stay with him. He can’t do anything wrong to me. If he does it, my teeth desire him strongly, (it doesn’t sound English, our proposal is I’ll bite him to death) as I’m starving.
RABBIT: That’s enough friends! We have no more choice. We are separating here. The dog is from here. The cat is from there. The donkey is to the west, and Noah, you’re towards the south. When it comes to me, I’m going to the other side. I hope, we’ll find this plant very quickly. Good luck to every one.
CAT: (to Noah) I hope you’re right. Otherwise, you’ll be sorry to be born!
DONKEY: Ok, the cat. (to Noah) Make us surprised, the human being for once. (We don’t understand the situation, we guess CAT is talking, addressing to Noah and saying: “OK human being, surprise us for once”) The Donkey says OKEY to the cat first (while the cat was talking to NOAH) and then the Donkey says to NOAH: “OK human being, surprise us for once”)
(They all leave the stage with the music.)
(The lights are switched off, the music is played.)
(The lights are on and the donkey comes onto the stage in a very tired manner.)
DONKEY: My feet are killing me. I’m very thirsty. (The cat comes.)
CAT: Oh my Gosh! I’ m so tired that I can’t move a muscle. What’s up the donkey? Did you find anything?
DONKEY: I looked for everywhere but I couldn’t find anything.
CAT: What if he deceived us?
DONKEY: What if he deceived us? If he did something like that I will jump at him at the moment I see him.
CAT: I told you that we cannot trust the human beings.
DONKEY: I didn’t trust him, either. But, we didn’t have a choice. Who is that coming?
CAT: That is the dog.
DONKEY: Could you find anything?
DOG: No, what about you?
CAT: We couldn’t either.
DONKEY: I will kill the human being. They’re not trustworthy.
CAT: OK, What if he has escaped? What about the rabbit?
DONKEY: What if he has eaten the rabbit?
CAT: I don’t think so. Maybe… He can do everything.
DOG: It’s OK. He could make sausages from you. But when it comes to the rabbit, it’s impossible. He’s the most intelligent of all.
DONKEY: What did you mean?
DOG: Never mind!
CAT: Calm down, friends.
(Noah arrives at with a bottle of water.)
NOAH: I’ve found water, my friends, water!
(Every one runs towards Noah, they’re all surprised.)
DONKEY: You didn’t run away. We supposed that… Where did you find the water?
NOAH: In a cave behind that sand accumulation. I filled it into a bottle and took it here immediately.
DOG: We’re very sorry as we thought wrong things about you.
CAT: But you know it’s very hard to trust you.
NOAH: I see. Of course, it isn’t easy to trust people. We destroyed our beautiful world. We’re guilty.
DOG: To understand what you did wrong is also the virtue. Well done to you.
DONKEY: You really made me surprised. Didn’t you drink even a drop of the water?
NOAH: I wanted to be a donkey. (Every one laughs.)
DONKEY: I hope you will always be like a donkey.
NOAH: I hope as well.
CAT: What will happen to us? We had one donkey, but now they are two.
(They all laugh.)
DOG: Friends, are you aware that finding water is nothing?
RABBIT (Rabbit hasn’t returned yet, it should be CAT or DONKEY) it is CAT: Where is the rabbit, then?
DOG: We have few hours, what should we do? There cannot be bigger trouble than this.
NOAH: I hope, he can find Medusa flower.
DONKEY: If he doesn’t find…
DOG: hey, don’t you smell? (He sniffs.)
CAT: What?
DOG: Fresh air.
NOAH: Hey! Rabbit comes, he has a plant, too. He is there.
-An enjoyable music plays and all of them dance.
(All are cheerful…. Rabbit brings Medusa with great exhaustion.)
DONKEY: Oh, that is true.
CAT: It is really right, thanks human being.
DOG: I have never thought that I will thank a human. I am sorry and thank you again.
NOAH: We can save our earth, in fact, I am so sorry for our faults, you gave me a chance, but we didn’t. If I hadn’t fallen asleep, I wouldhave been in that spaceship.
RABBIT: Now, you give us a chance again on behalf of humanity. The chance of keeping us and our world alive.
DONKEY: Anyway, what will we do then?
NOAH: We don’t have enough water, so we are going to water this plant little by little.
(He waters the plant and suddenly, it gives out bright light.)
RABBIT: Don’t you see? It produces oxygen.
CAT: Hurray! It is very fresh.
DOG: At the end of my life, I will breath with fresh air so, nothing makes me sad anymore.
NOAH: No, it is about time to live and keep alive (Either it is time to live and let live or it is about time we lived and let live) All three sentences are okey for us.
DONKEY: So, there isn’t anything that we are unable to cope with.
CAT: Hurray! Medusa brotherhood!
RABBIT: Ok, we have to plan something. I know that all of us are thirsty and hungry. Medusa is our sole hope, it will clean air and then we will wait for rain. So we should keep watch for medusa and should water it on time.
NOAH: Oh, yeah! He is right. Let’s keep watch one by one.
DOG: Whose duty is the first?
CAT: Let’s draw lots.
NOAH: Ok, first duty is mine. You can have a rest, because I had a good sleep.
RABBIT: Ok, the first is yours, but the second one is mine.
DONKEY: After you. It will be my turn.
CAT: Then my turn.
DOG: The last one is my duty, so I can take a rest for my old bones. (to Noah) If you have a trouble, you can wake me up.
NOAH: Ok!
DOG: Good night to you. (He sleeps)
CAT: I lie down there, heyy human being! Always make a folly.
NOAH: (Laugh) Ok, donkey! Have a nice sleep!
DONKEY: Have a good sleep, too.
NOAH: Thank you very much, rabbit.
RABBIT: Why?
NOAH: For the chance you’ve given /you’re giving. You have given
RABBIT: Everyone creates his chance, don’t forget. When you get a chance, it is your choice to make use of it or not.
NOAH: Have a nice sleep my friends.
(Everybody falls asleep. Noah keeps his watch and sings a song.)
My beautiful flower
I love you very much
There are very nice forests
Birds fly
Fish swim in the seas.
My little beautiful flower
I love you so much.
Hurry up my beautiful Medusa, clean this dirty air. It may rain. Off, I can’t bear this hunger and thirst. (He looks at the water.) No, no I can’t do this, but if I drink a little, they cannot notice. If they realize… It doesn’t matter, I found this water, I have a right to drink a little. No, no I shouldn’t do, it will rain and then we will have enough water. If it doesn’t rain… What did Donkey say? “Always make a folly?” If I drink,
It would be unfaithfulness. But I am very thirsty, one sip doesn’t make anything.
(He drinks all.)
Music plays.
NOAH: Oh my God! What did I do/ have I just done? Did I do I drank all water. What will I do and say? Oh yes, while I was guarding, I fell asleep, then Cat drank it all .Then he will blame me. Cats are ungrateful, as you know. Yes, I will say these… I am so hungry that … The fruit of the Medusa flower is said to be very sweet. The sweetest food …. (He picks it up and eats.)
- Oh god! What did I do? I’ve caused/ caused I have caused the end of my friends and earth.
(The lights turn on and off, siren sounds are heard everywhere.)
(Donkey, cat, dog, rabbit wake up.)
DONKEY: What is happening?
DOG: What happened to Medusa?
CAT: Oh god! Water is over.
RABBIT: I am unable to breath. What did you do, Noah? (He falls)
(They can’t breath and all fall one by one.)
DONKEY: We believed in you.
DOG: You destroyed us and our world.
CAT: Are you happy, now? We will never forgive you.
NOAH: My friends, please wake up! Forgive me! One more chance. Please!. One chance.
(Noah cannot breath, either.)
ANNOUNCEMENT: Noah’s spaceship, launched from earth, is lost in space, because it couldn’t find any place like the Earth to live.
Music.
Curtains are drawn
THE END
by HAKAN ATALAY
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