2013CaveArtDrama

How Was Water Given to the Desert Clan? by Dobhran, Rosie and Jacob—The Desert Clan Shaman: How long have we been traveling in the desert? Roadrunner: About…oh I don` t know!! How should I know?!! You wanted to do this in the first place. You said, “Roadrunner, we are the two strongest people here!!! We could survive without a little bit of food.” Shaman: But you agreed with it! You told me, “That’s a marvelous idea Shaman. Let’s leave tonight!” Roadrunner: But I—but you—uhg, outsmarted again by my own point…… What is that sound? Shaman: I think it’s-- Roadrunner: Running water! We’re saved!! We’re going to be a tribe legend!!! We’re not going to die!! Shaman: Shut up! So what if we found a spring? We can’t draw water from it or the sprit that lives within the water will awaken and will carry us down to the bottom of the brook which is much much deeper than it looks. Roadrunner: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Very funny. Now let’s save the tribe! Shaman: …………………….. No. Don’t do it. You will regret it. Roadrunner: Whatever. SPLASH!! (The pot smashed into the water.) Roadrunner: Yes, finally water! I’m so thirsty I could-- WS: How dare you take water that is not yours. If you have come here to save your tribe move somewhere else! Roadrunner: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Shaman: Please, Water Spirit, understand, our tribe is in great danger because there is a drought going on. We need water or our tribe will vanish!!! WS: What will I care if your tribe perishes? I have to provide water to the whole world and what you call a drought, I call taking a break for a month or so. Shaman: How about we make you a deal? You give us back our water and we’ll do whatever you want as long as you don’t take a break ever again. WS: Are you crazy?!? Everyone needs to take a break once in a while no matter who you are! Roadrunner: Uhh… maybe you could take a break every other week? WS: No way! Shaman: Maybe you could take a break on all of the world but not our tribe. WS: No deal Roadrunner: Why!?!? WS: It’s not fair to the rest of the world if I take off giving them water and not for you. Shaman: How about you take a break with them more often than you do with us? WS: No, no and no. Roadrunner: That’s it. I’m going to save the tribe whether the water spirit likes it or not. (Chase scene) (Pouring “Water” on Rosie) WS: Fine fine. Shaman: You can take your breaks then as long as they’re not long no matter where they are. WS: Well, I don’t know…. Roadrunner: Please let us leave. WS: All right! It’s a deal. Shaman: Ahem, are we going to go home now?!?! ( Back at the village.) Roadrunner: Wow! I can’t believe that we convinced the water spirit to create a spring in the middle of the village!!! Shaman: Not very surprising. In fact, I knew that it was going to happen. WS: You’re joking, aren’t you? Shaman: What! Hey where did she go? Roadrunner: I think she went for a walk. Shaman: Oh well, she’ll be back eventually. Roadrunner: At least we still have a spring that will never dry out in the middle of the village. Shaman: Yeah. That’s always good.
	What Are the Northern Lights? By Josh, Devorah and Daniel S.—The Arctic Clan Scene 1: Narrator: One day Mian was collecting Quang. (She goes off stage. Kwazimoto and Demuto are fooling around.) Mysterious Man: (suddenly appears) Slushed Ducks attack find Northern Lights only weakness. (collapses) Mian: (returning) Holy Fishbones!!! What happened here!!?? Kwazimoto and Demuto: We don’t know. Mian: TELL ME!!!!!! Kwazimoto: Demuto and I were having so much fun since you weren’t here, and then suddenly a man comes out of nowhere saying... Kwazimoto and Demuto: (in an exaggerated tone) “Slush Ducks Northern Lights weakness only are.” (They pretend to collapse on the floor.) Demuto: We don’t even know who the Slushed Ducks are. Mian: They are the people who killed our families and our tribe!!! Come on, let’s look for the Northern Lights. Scene 2: Six months later (Kwazimoto and Demuto are fooling around and eating.) Mian: We have to find where and what the Northern Lights are!!! Demuto: You know what, listen here Mian, we have been trying to find out what the Northern Lights are for six months. We are never going to find out!! Kwazimoto: Okay, Okay, I know what the Northern Lights are. They are lights.... that are in the north. How smart am I???!!! Kwazimoto and Demuto: (cheering and laughing) Yea, yea, ooo ooo, yea, ha ha ha, yea. Mian: (bangs her head with her hand ) I should have let those Slushed Ducks kill me. Come on you guys, let’s go!!! Scene 3: (They all go looking for the Northern Lights.) Mian: (bossing Kwazimoto and Demuto around) Look there. No!!! There you go. There!!! Kwazimoto and Demuto: (in a stage whisper) Let’s ditch her. (They both run off stage and change into clear Slushed Duck costumes.) Mian: (hears some noise and thinks it is Kwazimoto and Demuto) You guys are very funny. Now come out here and help me look. Clear Slushed Duck Guys: (chaning with rubber ducks) OUUU a kooka, OUUU a Kooka. Squeaky squeaky squeaky squeaky ouuuu a kooka ouuuu a kooka. (They try to kidnap Mian who runs two miles an hour, so they kidnap her merely by walking and tie her up.) Kwazimoto and Demuto: (They find her tied up, saying, “Eee ummmmm.”) You know I like her better like this. (She points up and there are the Northern Lights so they untie her. They have an idea.) Scene 4: The Finale Demuto: So what are the Northern Lights???? Mian: They are the Slushed Ducks’ angel of death. If the clear Slushed Ducks get near them. they will drop down to the floor dead in fear. Demuto: Oh, now I get it. So we have to get them to the Northern Lights. Kwazimoto: That¹s it Demuto. You are a genius!!!!! Demuto: I am???? Mian: He is????? Kwazimoto: One of us has to go to the clear Slushed Ducks’ camp at night and steal their rubber duck. Mian: Kwazimoto should go. If he dies no one will care. Demuto: Why doesn’t Mian leave? Maybe we will be able to go a day without hearing, “Come on, you guys.” Kwazimoto: You guys, I know what we have to do. We have to shun the weakest one. (He whispers something into Demuto’s ear. Then they both shun Mian.) Narrator: At night, Mian goes to the Slushed Ducks’ camp while they are sleeping and steals their rubber duck. She puts it under the Northern Lights. When the Slushed Ducks wake up they can’t find their rubber duck so they go looking for it. They see Mian with it so they chase her, then look up and see the Northern Lights. They fall down dead in fear of the angel of death. ian: Yes!!!! I defeated them. Come on you guys. Come here!!! (She runs off stage to get them.)
How Did Lightning Come to Be? By Sarah, Lynnelle and Toviah—The Forest Clan Scene 1: Narrator: Man is sitting on the roof. Man: I wonder when it’s going to stop raining. Voice off stage: It’s been raining for two weeks. It will never stop. Man: Don’t be so doubtful! Scene 2: (Two weeks later.) Man: Ha! Told you it would stop raining. Voice off stage: It didn’t stop raining. It’s still drizzling. Man: Close enough. Narrator: Man goes out to forest to get food for family. Scene 3: Narrator: Man is walking through the forest and sees bird with fish. Man: Yes! Finally, some food for my family. Narrator: The man shoots the bird and goes to get his prize. The man tries to pick up his bird but it is too heavy, so he sits down to think. Scene 4: Narrator: Man heads back to village to get help to move his bird. The first person the man sees is the female shaman of the village. Man: Shiloh, I killed a bird down by the river and can’t pick it up by myself. Shiloh: I will help you move it under one condition: you give me some bird. Man: Deal. Scene 5: Narrator: Shiloh and the man went to the site were the bird was. Man: See, there’s the bird. Shiloh: Wow, that’s a big bird, and that fish, it’s gigantic. Come on, let’s get to the cave before the rain starts up again. Narrator: The rain starts again and the two people drag the bird into the cave. They start a fire and start to explore the cave. Man: Hey, Shiloh, check out this picture of the lightning. Shiloh: Wow, that’s gorgeous. Man: I wonder who painted it? Shiloh: It was probably just some old lost traveler that was lost in the forest. Man: You’re probably right. Narrator: Suddenly they started hearing thunder and they saw lightning. Shiloh: Why don’t we just pray to the picture and maybe the goddess will stop the lightning. Man: Great idea. Narrator: Both of them start praying to the picture and then Zeuse the goddess comes out of the sky. Zeuse: I will stop the lightning under one condition, that you let me come visit your village when I want so I can escape the difficulties of my life. Man: What’s so difficult about your life? Zeuse: The normal stuff: being yelled at for all the lightning I have created. One really big problem is that when I get mad, I start a lightning storm and that’s not good either Shiloh: Oh! I would love for you to come to our village. It’s so boring. Sometimes we need some excitement. Zeuse: I’m so sorry. So do we have a deal? Shiloh and man: Deal! Narrator: And everything was exciting from then on. The Lightning Goddess came to the village every week to get away from her troubles and to excite the village. She told stories every week about her husband, the Thunder God, her mom, the Drizzle Goddess and her father the raining God. Shiloh: And everything was exciting from then on. Narrator: Hey, I was getting there. Everything was exciting from then on.
	How Did the Clan Receive the Gift of Corn and Wheat? By Tamar, Eric and Hannah—The Plains Clan Scene 1: Narrator: It is the morning and the whole tribe is sleeping. Running buffalo wakes up first to prepare for the harvest. Running Buffalo: My, it’s a beautiful day for the harvest. Too bad the harvest is in a week. I hope our crops grew. (Blazing Sun wakes up. No one leaves the stage.) Blazing Sun: Wow, look at the crops. They are very good. I am very excited for the harvest. I hope that we can find new crops to grow. (The youngest girl in the tribe, Running Water, wakes up and goes to her brother and sister Running Buffalo and Blazing Sun.) Running Water: Sissy, Sissy, can I have some food? Blazing Sun: No, I am sorry but we have to save the food from the harvest because we need to save food for the winter. You have to wait till your brother can go and hunt for the food. Running Buffalo: OK. Stop telling her that I am responsible for the food. OK, I’ll get the food so you can eat but stop telling her I am everything. Blazing Sun: Fine. Running water: OK, OK. OK. (claps her hands) Scene 2: The Hunt Running Buffalo: Can we go to the hunt now? I am starving. Fishing Pa: OK, we will go my child, but we have to wait till the sun comes out so we can hunt down our prey more easily. Wild Couz: I think that Running Buffalo is right. It is about time we go to the hunt. Fishing Pa: Oh all right, let’s go. OK, everyone move out. (Running Buffalo leads the hunt and we pretend to kill animals that we draw on a poster board, then we bring back the poster board and pretend to eat some.) Scene 3: (Running Buffalo brings back the food and Running Water and Blazing Sun feast on the food.) Running Water: Sissy, Sissy, I am tired. Can we go beddy-bye? Blazing Sun: (in the funny voice) Sissy, Sissy. OK, come on Running Buffalo, it is time for sleeping. Running Buffalo: OK, all right. Scene 4: Narrator: It is the morning and Running Water wakes up first and sees the Harvest God granting the gift of corn and wheat Running Water: Who are you? What are you doing? Is that food? Is it yummy yummy in my tummy? (Harvest God then flies away.) Scene 5: Running Water: Sissy, Sissy, come here now. There is food! Blazing Sun: Oh my god! This is amazing! That is a crop I have never seen before. Running Buffalo come quickly. Running Buffalo: What? I am sleeping. Blazing Sun: Don’t make me come in there. Running Buffalo: OK, I am coming. Narrator: Running Buffalo comes out and just stares at the crops then calls the parents and walks away with Blazing Sun and Running Water. Scene 6: The Harvest Narrator: The clan collects crops and don’t say thank you. Scene 7: Narrator: The crops are gone and they realize it is because they didn’t say thank you. They say thank you, then pray to the Harvest God for one more chance. Scene 8: Narrator: The crops come back. They say thank you and keep the crops. Scene 9: Narrator: Eleven years later, Running Buffalo is the new leader of the tribe and the crops are still there. Running Water: OK, so I am guessing we get to keep the crops. Cast: I guess so.