The
Lovely Red Flower
a children’s morality play based on a Malaysian folk tale
by Roy C. Booth
About the Play:
he Lovely Red Flower is a comical morality tale about the relative values
of sloth and industry. Populated by a group of rambunctious forest characters,
a group of greedy monkeys get their comeuppance.
The
Characters:
KOOLI, the lazy leader of a group of monkeys
CHATTI, a talkative, conceited monkey
PANDI, a very piggish and lazy monkey
HEMA, the snake
BJAK, the mouse deer
SAHIB, the tiger
TAKUT, the musang, a civet-like animal
THE LOVELY RED FLOWER
Place:
Somewhere in the Malaysian tropical
jungle on a hot day.
Time:
about two weeks ago.
From
the play:
AT RISE: The three monkeys KOOLI, CHATTI, and PANDI are lollygagging about
under a tree.
KOOLI: I am so hot!
CHATTI: I am so tired!
PANDI: I am so hungry!
KOOLI & CHATTI: Yeah! Yeah! We’re hungry, too! Hungry! Hungry!
Hungry!
PANDI: Ohhh, I wonder where we can get some food…
KOOLI: Yeah, me too…
CHATTI: Kooli, how do the other animals get their food?
KOOLI: Like Sahib the tiger?
PANDI: He eats according to the Law of the Jungle!
CHATTI: No, no, no, not Sahib or Panther. Someone… smaller.
KOOLI: They grow their own food, Chatti, they grow it.
CHATTI: They grow it? Ha!
PANDI: Ooh, that’s too much work! That’s too much work!
CHATTI: I agree with Pandi, that’s too much work! Besides, I’m
too good looking to be a farmer!
KOOLI: And I’m too smart…
PANDI: And I’m just… oh, forget it… I just don’t
want to do it…
KOOLI: Okay, we all want to eat, right?
PANDI: Yeah!
KOOLI: But…
PANDI: We don’t want to plant and grow our own food! Ugh!
CHATTI: That’s just too much work for a bunch of superior, good
looking monkeys like ourselves…
KOOLI & PANDI: Right!
Single Copy $5.00
Production Copies: $4.50 W/Royalty
Royalties $20/$10
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About
the Playwright:
Roy Booth is a published author, poet, journalist, essayist, and screenwriter
with 37 plays published with 475+ productions worldwide in the following
countries/protectorates: Aruba, Australia, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brazil,
Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Philippines,
Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom (England & Scotland),
and USA. Coming soon: two new plays from Samuel French and three more
from Heuer Publishing. Just released: "The Glover's Mange Cure Caper"
by Louise Bottrell and Roy C. Booth by Heuer Publishing.
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