A play titled (Thirst) for children

Characters in order of appearance

Volna: Flamingo bird, female

Bulldozer: buffalo

Danfash: fish

Rita: A fish-friendly duck

Hercules: a seagull

(Masks can be used for children to perform these roles)

Theater background

A recent picture of the marshes in the dry season

the first scene :

In a dry marsh land, a seagull appears circling the fish, spreading its wings, to pounce on it

Denefesh (addressing Heraclius):

please help me.

Hercules laughs: I am waiting for the moment of your death, so that you will be my next meal!

Danfesh: Instead of eating me, look for the reason for the water outage, and everyone will perish.

Hercules: This is none of my business. I can fly away and survive.

Danfash: Please help me because I am dying.

He makes fun of her

: Why don't you shut up?

Buffalo Bulldozer appears and asks Hercules why are you laughing?

Hercules: I laugh because the fish is asking for my help.

Bulldozer (in a sad tone):

We will all perish and we will be right, where is the water? (Screaming):

Where is the water?

Rita the duck enters silently, approaching Danefesh with a sad look on her face

Hercules shouts at her: Go away, it's my food.

Rita gets angry and stands between Hercules and Denefesh

Hercules (thinking that Rita's intention is to eat the fish instead of him):

Go away, you sneaky duck.

Rita: Why don't you go away? You have two wings to fly where there is plenty and water.

Bulldozer shouts at them

Enough with you, we have to find a solution, not disagree

(a moment of silence)

A bulldozer approaches Danfish, who turns from thirst over the remaining water

How can I save you, my friend?

Danfash (with intermittent breaths): I want, I want, I want, I want, what water

The flamingo bird (Volna) appears and wonders:

Am I in Iraq?

Did you get lost in the Bekaa?

Where is the water? Where is the singing greenery?

Hercules laughs: There is no water, the Euphrates River has dried up.

Volna dances and repeats:

(It freezes and becomes ice

It boils and becomes steam

But I love him

A fountain or stream

flows into rivers)

She shouts: Where are the marshes?

They knock their heads / cut off

Scene two

Flona, ​​Hercules, Bulldozer, and Rita appear in a circle around Danefesh as he takes his last breath.

Flona: Am I a bad omen?

Bulldozer: I don't think so, it might be us because we were here before you.

Rita: Danefesh said something about searching for water

Hercules speaks while raising his wings high:

He asked me to find the reason for the disappearance of the water

Bulldozer: Why are you? You are nothing but a weak seagull who only thinks about food.

Hercules: I am no different from you, you huge one.

(Hercules and Bulldogs quarrel)

Rita shouts at them:

Enough, we have to think, not fight.

Everyone shuts up

Flona: We will all perish after Denesh. We have to migrate to the sources of the river

Bulldozer (with a sigh): I don't have wings. Go without me because I will be the reason for your delay.

Hercules: (standing over Denefesh's head, screaming with joy):

The fish is dead, let me eat it

I don't know how to think when I'm hungry.

Rita hits him, and Flona pushes him

And falls to the ground....

A bulldozer tries to pull out Danafesh's body to bury him

Hercules protests:

Am I the reason? Am I the one who cut off the water?

(Heracles flies) escaping

Rita approaches Danefesh's body and cries

O smell of the marshes scented with amber, is this farewell.

Bulldozer: I will stay until the end. Water must come

Rita, Flona:

We are with you

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Children's Song: From a poem by the Iraqi writer Farouk Salloum

*Published on the website months ago

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The verses that Flona recites by the Iraqi writer Farouk Salloum