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Why We Have Day and Night PLAYS is protected by U.S. copyright law. Only current subscribers may use this play (www.playsmagazine.com). Why We Have Day and Night Flying animals are pitted against land animals in this Australian Aborigine tale that points out the foolishness of pride and war. By Barbara Winther Characters SETTING: Backdrop painting of arid region of Australia. Up left is a group STORYTELLER of eucalyptus trees, one that can be climbed. Center is a large, flat rock. GOANNA (a kind of lizard) Hidden upstage of rock is a boomerang. KOALA AT RISE: GOANNA rests on rock. EAGLE-HAWK KOALA sleeps in a tree. STORY- COCKATOO TELLER enters right. GREEN PARROT STORYTELLER: After the first dark- ness, in the Dreamtime1, Yhi, the Sun OWL Goddess, brought sunlight to the KOOKABURRA earth. Birds and land animals lived in harmony. They danced together, KANGAROO played together, and enjoyed each other’s company. But that good rela- WALLABY (a small kangaroo) tionship ended one day when Cockatoo met with Eagle-hawk, the leader of the DINGO birds. Neither realized that Goanna FLYING FOX (a kind of bat) (Gestures at GOANNA) rested on a rock, listening, or that Koala (Gestures EMU at KOALA) sat up in a eucalyptus tree, eating leaves. (Exits left. EAGLE- YHI (the Sun Goddess) HAWK enters right as if flying and crosses center. COCKATOO struts on left, preening feathers.) 1 To Australian Aborigines, a time of creation. PLAYS • playsmag.com 1 EAGLE-HAWK (In a commanding GOANNA (Sliding off rock): Koala, manner): You wanted to see me, did you hear those birds? Cockatoo? KOALA (Pantomiming eating leaves): No, I fell asleep. COCKATOO (Proudly): Yes, Eagle- hawk. I’ve been doing a great deal of GOANNA: You are always sleeping. thinking lately. How do you manage to survive? EAGLE-HAWK: Really? I thought KOALA: I stay up in a tree, that’s you spent your time displaying your how. These eucalyptus leaves don’t pretty feathers. give me enough nourishment to do much else. COCKATOO (Indignantly): Yes, but I think while I’m showing off. GOANNA: Too bad. Well, I’m going to tell Kangaroo, the leader of our tribe, EAGLE-HAWK: I see. Well, be quick what those arrogant birds are broad- about your thoughts. I must hunt for casting. my evening meal. KOALA (Peering right): Here comes COCKATOO: All right. (Spreads Kangaroo now. Sorry I can’t join your wings dramatically) It came to me in a conversation. I simply have to sleep. flash. (Sleeps) EAGLE-HAWK: What did? KANGAROO (Hopping in right): Good evening, Goanna. You look upset. COCKATOO: The realization that we What’s wrong? birds are far better than land animals. We can do so much more than they GOANNA: Birds consider themselves can. Why, they can’t even fly. better than land animals. They fly about twittering, (Imitates) “Birds are EAGLE-HAWK (Thoughtfully): You better, birds are better.” are absolutely right. Birds are better than land animals. We should cele- KANGAROO: How disgusting and brate this fact. Go tell the rest of the absolutely untrue. Birds are a clutch of birds. feeble feathers. COCKATOO: Indeed I shall. They’ll GOANNA: Right! be happy to realize how superior we are. (Exits left as if flying. EAGLE- KANGAROO: Call Wallaby and HAWK crosses right as if flying.) Dingo. We must hold a council meet- ing. EAGLE-HAWK (Squawking): Birds are better, birds are better. (Exits GOANNA (Scrambling left, calling right. After a moment, COCKATOO off): Wallaby, Dingo, Kangaroo invites reenters left, followed by PARROT, you to a council meeting. (WALLABY, OWL, and KOOKABURRA, who fly hopping, and DINGO, barking, enter around stage, twittering in unison.) left. KANGAROO hops onto rock.) PARROT, OWL, COCKATOO and KANGAROO (With front paws up, KOOKABURRA: Birds are better, voice commanding): We have a prob- birds are better. (KOOKABURRA lem. Birds are flying around chirping laughs just before they exit right.) about how great they are. They consid- 2 PLAYS • playsmag.com er themselves superior to land ani- hundred times stronger than your mals. scrawny ones. GOANNA, WALLABY and DINGO EAGLE-HAWK (Louder): That’s an (Ad libbing): That’s ridiculous! Stupid birds. They’ve got tiny brains. Nobody 2 Sparsely settled back country of Australia. should believe anything a bird says. insult. I should peck you to pieces. (Etc.) KANGAROO (Louder): You wouldn’t DINGO: Kangaroo, I suggest you meet dare. I could punch you so hard you with Eagle-hawk, the bird leader. would splash into the billabong.3 Explain to him the silliness of what his (KOALA wakes with a start and peers tribe flies around twirping. down.) GOANNA: I agree. Surely Eagle- EAGLE-HAWK (Screeching): Into the hawk will realize we can’t allow this. billabong! How dare you make such a threat! WALLABY: And inform Eagle-hawk that we land animals are far better KANGAROO (Bellowing): How dare than birds because we can leap across you fly around broadcasting false the ground and they can’t. statements? I don’t like you at all. KANGAROO (Hopping off rock): Good EAGLE-HAWK (Screeching louder): I idea, Wallaby. (To GOANNA) Please don’t like you either. The way you hop tell Eagle-Hawk I want to see him. around is repulsive. (GOANNA exits right.) You two, (Gesturing to DINGO and WALLABY) KANGAROO (Hopping in a frenzy): gather our land tribe together and wait That does it. My land tribe will wipe in the outback.2 (DINGO, barking, and out your sky tribe. WALLABY, hopping, exit left. From right, EAGLE-HAWK enters flying.) EAGLE-HAWK (Waving wings and shouting): A battle it shall be. We will EAGLE-HAWK: You wanted to see flap you to pieces. (Exits right, flapping me, Kangaroo? wings and shrieking) Birds are better, birds are better. KANGAROO: Yes, Eagle-hawk. Tell your birds to stop spreading falsehoods KANGAROO (Exiting left, hopping about how much better they are than and shouting): Land animals are bet- land animals. ter, land animals are better. (FLYING FOX flies on left, looking worried.) EAGLE-HAWK: I can’t do that. They speak the truth. KOALA (Peering down): Hello, Flying Fox. Apparently, there’s going to be a KANGAROO: They certainly do not. battle. EAGLE-HAWK: Oh, yes they do. I’ll FLYING FOX: So I’ve heard. The rea- give you an example of our superiority. sons for it don’t make sense, though. We can fly and you can’t. You don’t Birds insist they are better than land even have feathers or wings. animals because they can fly. Well, I’m not a bird, but I can fly. (EMU rushes KANGAROO: But you can’t move fast on left, looking flustered.) over the ground. My hind legs are a PLAYS • playsmag.com 3 EMU: And I, Emu, am a bird, though I FLYING FOX: But I’m not a bird. can’t fly. But I run faster than most animals. OWL: So what? You can fly, and we need your help. KOALA: Well, I’m not a bird, but I don’t FLYING FOX: Furthermore, I’m 3 A backwater pool on a river. against this war. feel much like a land animal, either. I stay up in the trees. OWL: Shame on you. Where’s your patriotism? (Exits left, swooping and FLYING FOX: It appears that the hooting) reasons for this battle are based on half-truths. Birds think they are better KOALA: I do wish animals would stop because they can fly, but not all birds waking me up. (EMU reenters in tears.) can. Land animals think they are bet- ter because they can move fast over the EMU: The birds don’t want me. They ground, but not all land animals can. say I’d better learn how to fly or else. KOALA: This is too complicated. FLYING FOX: Or else what? FLYING FOX: I see no valid reason EMU: I don’t know, but I’m sure it’s for a war. I refuse to fight in it. (Exits something awful. (Rushes off left, cry- left) ing) EMU (Calling after): Do what you FLYING FOX (Shaking head): Poor wish, but as a matter of honor I must Emu. (Exits. KOALA sighs and goes join the bird army. (Rushes off right. back to sleep. STORYTELLER reen- KOALA sighs and goes back to sleep.) ters.) STORYTELLER (Reentering): So STORYTELLER: The battle raged on began a terrible battle. The bird war- and on. The land animals regrouped riors swept down on the land animals and fought back. Now their weapons and struck many blows. Their weapons flashed, and the thud of their clubs gleamed. The sound of their war clubs shook the ground like an earthquake. was like thunder. The land animals (If desired, another stylized battle may retreated. (If desired, a stylized enact- be enacted to music. When finished, all ment of the battle can be created to exit, and OWL reenters as before, hoot- music. When finished, all exit, and ing and swooping about. FLYING FOX OWL flies on right and dramatically watches him.) swoops about stage, hooting. KOALA wakes up with a start.) KOALA: What’s happening now, Owl? FLYING FOX (Reentering): Owl, OWL: The land animals are winning what’s the latest report from the bat- in the outback. They’ve declared a deci- tlefront? sive victory over the birds. I do believe they will win this war. OWL: The Birds are winning the war, especially in the rain forest of the FLYING FOX: You’d better hurry and north. I’ve been sent to recruit more help your flying brothers. birds. Flying Fox, why are you still here? You should help your flying OWL: Oh, no! I’m switching sides right brothers.
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