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The dramatisation of Oscar Wilde's short story
SELFISH GIANT
WRITTEN BY
ABHIJIT CHAKRABORTY
Characters :
Giant
Guards
Children
Frost
Snow
North wind
Hail
The Man
Tree
The Boy
[Time : Day time
The stage is decorated with trees and flowers where the
children dance and play.]
Children : (sing)
Move
to the sun,
Sunrise makes us cheer.
Flowers blossom like the star,
And
we dance so far
As the mouse searches grain
The
garden mingles star.
(They shout) A lot of the stars
[To hear the sound of horse guards parade. Two men enter
with a long curtain of black and place that two corners of front stage. There is a sound
of cyclone. The boys are afraid and they scatter. The giant enters with large
stick in his hand and goes to the Middle.]
Giant:- I am –the man; I am –the last ; I am -the
first to make everybody understand I return.
Guards : (chorus) He returns after long nine years[S3] .
Children: (chorus with fear) But where has he been such long
years?
Guards:(chorus) That’s not the question you should be asking!
You have to go.
Children:(sing)
Where to go-where
to play
Nothing more but to wish
Give us the garden to play
Giant:
(angrily)No-No-No. This is my garden ,I shall not give the permission to anyone
except me to play
in this garden. When I started to return from my friend Cornish Ogre’s
house I know that something has been bad, very bad, very very bad .(He stares
at the children)
[The Children are retreating.]
Giant: (grudging voice) My garden-my own garden.
[The Children run to the left . They make a quick exit. ]
[As the giant stands in the Middle, the guards are circling
around him with stick in one hand and a paper where it is written “Trespassers
will be prosecuted.”]
Guards :(sing) Come-Come-Come, here we come
Here
we stay, self we stand
Seasons come as they go
But we firm stand, self we stand.
[Amidst the song the two men representing winter with a
white curtain enter and spread the curtain to everywhere of the stage. ]
Snow: I am the Hail , and it is a beautiful garden to stay.
Frost: I am the Frost and I am keeping the Spring at bay.
Snow: But this is a beautiful place, isn’t so?
Frost: Here and here is drum playing the hard rockers of
selfishness.
Snow: That is why we forever will stay.
Hail and Frost: (dance and sing)
We will dance –dance for us
We will stay like a mass
We invite storm to come
We
know the winter stays too long
Known as Giant , there he comes
[S5] [Giant
moves his head up and stares all round to the stage]
Giant:( surprise) Strange very strange! How many more days
will there be winter in my garden! Who can give me the answer?
Snow and Frost: None.
Giant: No one is now with me.
But I am
the man known as Giant because I am better than any body in this earth .
This is my garden ,my own, but why the Spring is so late to come?
Snow: This is a delightful spot, where white paints
everything.
Frost: Where the cold winter persists forever.
Snow: Let’s North Wind pay a visit.
[The North Wind enters with a grey curtain and covers the
body of the Giant with it.]
North Wind: (sings & dance) Here I am and there comes
the Hail [Hail enters with]
Hail: (sings)
Where is the Spring -forget to sail (dance)
Frost:(sings)
Never the sun makes any way
(dance)
Snow:(sings)
We are here –here to stay.
[As the dance finishes a man enters with a cap where the picture of
Linnet is painted. He enters and puts his cap on the head of Giant. In the
background we hear the song of linnet. Giant looks up. The man exits.]
Giants : Who is there? Spring? Who is there?
[The man again
enters with some multi-coloured papers in his hands and stitches it on the tree.]
The man: Here is
the colours that stretch their arms
towards the New ones and thus comes the lives. Hey you the Frost, Hail, North
Wind and Snow –go and lost.
[The man exits .
The Frost. Hail, North Wind, Snow are dying so they stoop in the ground. Giant
looks all around. ]
Giant: I think, the spring comes at last.
[The trees are singing and dancing.]
Trees: Oh here we go no more to go
The spring comes back
It will be children
show
See them come-
[The children come from all corner
of the stage secretly . They always keep an eye on Giant. ]
Touch once
more.
[The children touch
the trees, and the trees began to move their heads.]
Giant: (joyous) The spring has come.
Trees: (chorus) So as the children.
[One child tries to climb on one tree. Beside that tree
Frost, Hail, Snow and North Wind are gathered to fear him away. The boy is
weeping. The giant looks at the boy. He slowly appears behind the boy and take
him into the tree . The Boy is so happy that he kisses him]
Giant : Oh dear! Oh dear! How selfish I have been! Why I am
always accustomed to this stick?
[He looks at the stick
and then he uses the stick to break the wall which is represented by the
black curtain. The guards with black curtain and Frost, Hail, Snow , North Wind
exit slowly. Giant takes a ball and throw it to the children. The Children
dance and sing with Giant.]
Giant: In my garden there are so many flowers, but (pointing
to children) they are the most beautiful.
Children & Giant : (sing)
At last
the spring gives us more
The fun
and play –here we show
Nothing in the world is
called selfish
The air
with us wants to go,
[The Boy climbs
down from the tree and slowly he walks all around the stage and the he slowly
exits. ]
Go-go-go
all the bad, all nasty
No more
to –sad.
The spring comes
last but exists
No one
is bad, good persist.
[They all are happy. Now Giant looks all around and looks
for the Boy. ]
Giant : (to the children)Where is he?
Children: (chorus) He!
Giant : He? He is there .
[Points towards the tree. ]
Giant : He was so good.
Children : (chorus) Why?
Giant : He was so good. He kissed me. (Murmuring) He changes
me.
Children :(chorus) We don’t know him. He has gone. Gone .
Giant : Who knows where has he gone? How I would like to see
him!
Children : (chorus) But here we welcome all the seasons. We
dance ,sing and play- play for ever.
[Children
are singing and dancing. As they are dancing Giant sits at the middle of the
stage. Children have some white papers
,they cut and stitch it. They make a musk of a old person and put the musk on
the face of Giant.]
(Dance & Sing)
Fun-Fun see the sun
See the
sun
Like a
looking glass
Life has
to pass
Move to the heaven
See
the sun.
[Frost, Snow, Hail, North Wind slowly enter with torn
cottons and then spread it all around the stage. Then they exit slowly amidst
the song. The Boy enters again with scar on the face and whole body. He stands
near a tree.]
Now we welcome
All the seasons- they must come
Here
is the winter with the fashion.
[The Children exit with joyous mood. Giant looks up and
looks to the Boy. He runs towards him with stick]
Giant : Oh dear! At last you are here. [Looks intensely and
minutely to the body of The Boy.]
Giant : (anger) Who hath dared to wound thee? Who? I will
slay him.
The Boy : (smile) Don’t worry , it is the wound of Love.
Giant : (surprise) Love! (awe) Who art thou?
The Boy : You let me play once in your garden , to-day you
shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.
Giant : Paradise! And you!
The Boy : I ? I am He –He-He.
Giant : You…
[Frost, Hail, North Wind ,Snow slowly enters . They
sing ]
(song) At last the Love says –where we go
Where
we should stop and how much to show
Never
to be selfish, before to die
[Giant slowly stoops to the knee of The Boy and slowly lies.
The Boy takes out the musk from the face of Giant and slowly exits.]
No
one is Giant ,and everyone cry.
Nothing is beauty rather than the smile
Where
children play, there Heaven will rise.
[Slowly the Children enter and sing in chorus..]
Curtain
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