Scenario for an extracurricular activity based on the work of Antoine De Saint-Exupéry “The Little Prince. Script for a musical fairy tale for the school theater “The Little Prince” Script for the concert program “The Little Prince”
Olga Merenkova
Scenario for the event “The Little Prince and His Friends”
Scenario for the event “The Little Prince and His Friends”
/journey/
Goals: broadening the horizons of preschoolers, forming ideas about environmental balance; learn to draw conclusions based on your own observations; develop communication skills, teach how to take care of the riches of nature, awaken children’s interest in the fate of our Earth, and arouse a sense of concern about man’s attitude towards nature, both his native land and the Earth as a whole.
Equipment and materials: costumes for: little Prince, Baba Yaga, 2 gnomes, Traffic Light, Forest Fairy, Chamomile, Grass Witch, Basilio the Cat, Hare, Bear; slingshot, lighter, artificial Christmas trees for the forest, mittens, bucket, hatchet.
Characters:
Forest Fairy: The Little Prince
Boy Girl
Forest gnome 1 Forest gnome 2
Traffic light Hooligan 1
Hooligan 2 Basilio
Hare Bear
Herbal Witch
Progress of the event
Ved. There are miracles in this world
The dawn blooms like a poppy in the distance and beckons. Today is a Holiday on our blue planet.
Love the native land of your childhood
With ardent love, without boundaries
And know that at the call of your heart, the little prince came to you. Let me introduce him to you. Blue eyes, slightly turned up nose With a sword, with a light yellow scarf
With a shock of sunny hair.
The prince appears: - I left my asteroid,
To help you in a good deed, because for a great purpose it is worth
We have to work day and night,
So that the sun shines brightly
And our day did not fade in darkness. We will have to do a lot
In the name of life on Earth.
It's all about us, kids. We can do miracles: Save animals, clean up rivers, Create gardens, grow forests!
Andrey: - Hello! I think I recognize you! You're the Little One
a prince who has flown around many planets. Will you live on Earth?
Small prince: - No, everyone should live on the planet on which they were born, which they love. But I came to visit you, and I would like to know more about your planet.
Julia: - We are very happy to have guests. Well, then let's go!
1 action.
Andrey: - And here is the river. Shall we take a swim? Or maybe we'll catch some fish? / casts a fishing rod for the first time - pulls out an old shoe, the second time - a torn umbrella, the third time - Baba Yaga. /
Baba Yaga: - The river was clean, it was even called Transparent, but it became
dirty - Multi-colored. It was high in water, but now low in water: the plant drinks too much water, and then releases the dirty water back into the river. Everyone is angry: no washing, no washing, no quenching your thirst, no catching fish!
Julia: /hiding behind Andrey/ - Grandma, who are you?
Baba Yaga: - Disgrace! Haven't you read fairy tales, girl? I am Baba Yaga.
And now, because of the people who ruined the river, I am the Multicolored Baba Yaga. I washed my dress in this water, see who I looked like. There are also rivers that are blocked by dam walls. One hydroelectric dam on the river - no matter what. But when there are several of them, this is a disaster. In captivity, the river is slowly dying. Its living water gradually becomes “dead” - neither drink nor bathe. My friend Vodyanoy escaped from one of these. Eh, you people, stumps!
Andrey: - But not all people have a bad attitude towards nature! Of course, we must take care of rivers: water is the beauty of all nature. So the poet Eduard Nikolaevich Uspensky wrote:
Landscapes appeared
Trees and birds
And even mammoths.
Then the hippos
Elephants, crocodiles,
And our distant ancestors are Gorillas.
And if we appeared on Earth,
They would contact us immediately.
They would tell us:
Protect the environment!
Especially the greens
Especially water!
Baba Yaga: - Easy! And you, I see, are wow people! Let's come and visit me, in the hut on chicken legs. The forest is my home.
What are forests?
What are forests?
This is our land
Age-old beauty
They contain not only crossbills,
And not only mushrooms, -
Our dreams are in them,
And a piece of fate.
Many songs have been sung
About the beauty of the forest,
The forest teaches trust
And also kindness.
Always gives us something
You can't help but love the forest.
Julia: I'm afraid, Andryusha. What if she eats us?
Andryusha: It can’t be. I think that the modern Baba Yaga is a vegetarian. Right, grandma?
Baba Yaga: The boy is smart. Let's go, let's go, I won't hurt you!
Two gnomes come out.
1st forest gnome: Shh! Do you hear? /listens/ Someone is walking through the forest
path!
2nd forest gnome: /crouches to the “ground” and listens, speaks in a whisper/
It’s not just one person walking along a forest path,” but a whole group of people!
2nd: /grabs his head/ It seems these are children! Quicker!
Quickly inform the forest dwellers!
1st: Declare the alarm! Quicker! Quicker! We run forward along the path. /They rush to run and run into an environmental traffic light/.
Traffic light: Stop! You'll scare me away! You'll scare away the whole forest! What's happened? Dwarves: /interrupting each other/:
This way along the path. a group of children is moving
They make noise and litter
Last time, the same group of children lit a huge fire and the entire clearing burned out.
One day they trampled the entire anthill.
Traffic light: Calm down! No need to sound the alarm! These children want to make friends with the forest! I, an environmental traffic light, will help the children learn to follow environmental rules and travel through the forest in such a way that
so as not to harm animals, plants, or ourselves. So, forest gnomes, welcome your guests!
/The children and the Little Prince come out/
Dwarves: We are always glad to have friends!
We invite you to visit us.
Anyone who wants to know for sure
How to protect nature
How to behave in the forest
So as not to cause harm to yourself,
Not a tree, not a flower,
Neither frogs nor foxes,
Neither grasshoppers nor birds.
After all, at any time of the year
Nature's defenders are waiting!
/The song “From a Smile” plays/
Traffic light: Who still doesn’t know:
I am a green traffic light.
I do my duty
In this fabulous forest!
Everyone, I'll turn on the green light,
Who will give the correct answer!
Dwarves: Dear traffic light! Please show me how you work! Traffic light: Every signal I make on a forest path means almost the same as on the roadway:
Red light is harmful to nature!
Yellow - be careful!
The light is green - how beautiful! - The forest will say to you: “Thank you!”
ABOUT! Where are you going? /addresses 2 boys who appeared from nowhere and are heading past him/.
Boys: Where - where. To the forest, of course!
Traffic light: Are these your friends? /Addresses the Little Prince and children/
Children: No.
Traffic light: Well, I see that the guests are very strange /saying these words, he takes a slingshot from one boy’s pocket and shows it to the guys/.
Dwarfs: Well, well, show us what you came with, and the guys will turn on the traffic light at each of yours, what you can and cannot go into the forest with.
/The boys untie the backpack and take out objects from there, accompanying them with comments. /
1. Lighter.
Boys: We wanted to make a fire.
Traffic light: Why?
Boys: Well. so simple. Maybe bake some potatoes.
Dwarves: So, shall we let this thing into the forest?
What signal? Why? /children's answers/
2. Work gloves.
Boys: we were going to mess it up spruce branches to build a hut and collect garbage in the clearing where we will stop.
Traffic light: What signal? /yellow/ Why? /children's answers/
3. Small plastic bucket.
Boys: Last time we planted several rosehip bushes along the edge of the ravine, and today we wanted to water them.
Traffic light: Which light is on? /green/ Why? /children's answers/
Well done! Just remember these signals and never forget? Little Prince: I am friends with nature, - At dawn, you understand,
Life is more interesting this way! Only owls sleep - sleepyheads,
I treasure every bee, feed the red squirrels
Every bird song. From the palm of a pine tree.
And to love nature - Don’t destroy bird’s nests -
Nothing is simpler, Respect freedom.
You just need to wander around Like a master, protect
Early morning in the grove. Nature on Earth!
Forest Fairy: Hello, kids, girls and boys. Hello, Little Prince. I am the Forest Fairy. I came to tell you that our little brothers need protection and protection. Animals, plants, rivers, lakes, and seas need to be protected and preserved. Everything that nature has created needs our protection.
But I didn’t come alone, my forest friends were with me.
Chamomile: Many useful herbs
On the soil of my native country
Can cope with illness
Mint, tansy, St. John's wort.
Herbal Witch: I want it for you, my friend.
Add more flowers to the bouquet.
/holds out poisonous flowers/
Chamomile: Oh, that witch! Either he will slip a poisonous root, or inedible grass. So he strives to do something nasty.
Herbal Witch: I've come to my senses, guys!
Let's go to the forest together,
Let's collect sage and mint,
We'll pick tender lilies of the valley,
At home we will put them in water.
Chamomile: We know these plants,
We protect and protect!
From such dashing ones as this one,
Bouquet Gatherers
In the Red Book they
They've been listed for a long time.
/Basilio the cat appears/
Basilio: The birds have a Christmas tree. The guys have a Christmas tree. And I want to have a Christmas tree too.
I’ll take a hatchet and go into the forest to chop down a tree.
/goes and sentences/
I will cut down the green one with an axe.
From the forest I will take the fragrant scent into my house.
/Approaches the tree and swings an ax; a Hare comes out from under the tree/
Hare: Why are you, cat?
Came into the forest with an axe?
The ax and I are not expecting guests.
After all, these Christmas trees are
Basilio: I won’t quarrel with you, Hare. I'll go further. That Christmas tree is even better, I’ll cut it down.
/Basilio was just swinging his ax when the children and Mal appeared.
Prince/Julia: What are you doing here, Basilio?
Why do you have a hatchet?
Don’t even think about cutting down Christmas trees.
Without them, the animals will have nowhere to live.
Come on, give me the ax here,
Otherwise, we’ll wake up Toptygin,
So that he can talk to you
And he explained it well.
Bear: And I woke up anyway
Guys, what's that noise?
Andrey: How can we not make noise, Mikhail?
When some bully
I intend to chop down a Christmas tree
In the green forest, ours.
Bear: What are you thinking, prodigal Cat?
Why did you come to our house?
Come on, get out of here with an axe!
Basilio: And I want a Christmas tree like the guys’, and even more beautiful.
Julia: Don’t you know that we have been making beautiful New Year’s bouquets for the holiday for a long time. There’s even a competition: “Instead of a Christmas tree, a New Year’s bouquet?”
Little Prince: I also want to learn how to make New Year's bouquets. Children: We invite everyone who wants to learn to visit us next year.
The Little Prince: May it be a glorious day in February
And eternal in future years
And let the air in the cities shine more transparent than watercolors!
Andrey: It’s all about the Person!
He can do miracles
Save the animals, clean the rivers,
Create gardens, grow forests!
Little Prince: I'm glad that we are together on this Day.
You are patriots, God knows!
Saving the planet is a matter of honor,
And your highest civic duty!
/Everyone sings in chorus/
There are many barriers in life
On an unknown path.
There are hundreds of thousands of poachers - They cannot escape retribution!
To see the sky with bright stars,
As a gift for future years, we need clean air back
I am for big small cities!
There are a lot of questions in the world,
And we could solve them,
Whenever there was a day on the planet,
And the National Year of the Earth!
Let it be a miracle all year round what's going on
And even better - every year!
And then the world will be reborn,
And everyone will find happiness!
Class hour- discovery based on the fairy tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupery “The Little Prince” “What does it mean to be human”
Target: introduce students to the bright, extraordinary world of fairy tales French writer Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Tasks: create conditions for
constructing one's own knowledge and understanding philosophical and aesthetic problems, raised in the fairy tale by the author;
development of students' reading interest, creative imagination,
feelings of music, monologue speech of students.
introducing students to the joy of cooperation, the laws of discovering new things; education of a free and independent, spiritual and moral personality.
Progress of the class hour:
Student conversation (leave with different sides to the blackboard)
1st student. What do you guys think is the most important thing in life for a person?
2nd student. I think strength and courage. After all strong man can do whatever he wants.
3rd student. No, it seems to me that the main thing for a person is to be smart. Clever man will be able to avoid troubles, will calculate everything accurately.
4th student. I would like all people to be kind and help each other.
5th student. I believe that the main thing in life is to be a Human.
1st student. Like this? After all, we are all people anyway. We were already born with them. I don `t understand?
2nd student But really, guys, what does it mean to be Human? What should one be like in this life in order to earn the title of Man?
U: : - How often does it happen in life that adults do not always understand children. And often children do not understand adults. An adult lives by his mind, and a child lives by his soul and intuition, which, unfortunately, he loses as he grows up.
It is worth listening to a child’s explanation and understanding of many things, turning to a child’s worldview, and many things will appear in a different light.
(The music continues to sound s ka, children come in and sit down with their mothers or fathers).
U: He has been living in the world for many, many years. amazing fairy tale Antoine de Saint Exupery "The Little Prince". It is surprising in that it poses very important and difficult questions to us. Today our relatives, our adults will help understand these issues.
1 group
1 student Once upon a time lived in France amazing person, who felt responsible for people, for his Earth and dreamed that all the people of planet Earth would be happy and love each other. He was a pilot, writer, dreamer, and his name was Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
2 student Saint-Exupéry owned many adult inventions, but he was more proud of jumping soap bubbles than his other discoveries.
U: He taught little boy let in bubble. But when they hit the wall, the bubbles burst. The boy was crying. For several days Exupery walked gloomily. Then I added a drop of glycerin to the soap foam. Now the bubbles were bouncing off the walls like balls; they became even brighter and more beautiful.
U: This happened in 1942, when the Great Patriotic War was going on.When France was captured by Nazi troops, the pilot won the right to fight for peace on earth. Already middle-aged and wounded, he flew and conducted reconnaissance. Two weeks before the liberation of France, Exupery flew out on reconnaissance, and soon his comrades realized that Saint Aix would never return.Exupery died...
Parent But his book “The Little Prince” remained on Earth. A fairy tale is a writer’s testament, addressed to both children and adults. The book in which he expressed his most cherished dreams and in which he managed to tell people the most important thing - what it means to be Human.
What is this wise and kind fairy tale about?
( one of the students briefly retells the fairy tale) “The fairy tale tells how a pilot who suffered an accident meets in the Sahara Desert with a little boy, an alien from another planet, with the Little Prince. Having made friends with the pilot, a little prince tells him about his planet, about the rose, which he took care of for a long time and which was very capricious. Therefore, the Little Prince decides to leave his planet in order to better know the world, people and find friends. Before arriving on planet Earth, he visits the asteroids, where he meets a king, a drunkard, an ambitious man, a business man, a lamplighter and a geographer. The last he visits is planet Earth, where he meets a wise fox, with whom he becomes friends, and a pilot, whom he will save by helping him find a well. And then the little prince decides to return to his planet, to his rose. To do this, he must free himself from the weight of his body, that is, die. After being bitten by a snake, he leaves the planet, and the pilot keeps the memory of his little friend for the rest of his life."
U: Let's remember who this fairy tale is dedicated to.(Reading out loud).
I ask the children to forgive me for dedicating this book to an adult. I'll say this in justification: this adult is my best friend. And one more thing: he understands everything in the world, even children's books. And finally, he lives in France, and it’s hungry and cold there now. And he really needs consolation. If all this does not justify me, I will dedicate my book to the boy who was once my adult friend. After all, all adults were children at first, but few of them remember this. So I am correcting the dedication:
LEON VERT,
when he was little
What phrase made you think and why?(“After all, all adults were children at first, only few of them remember this.” Adults do not always understand children. And if they remembered themselves as small and could think from the position of a child, they would find it faster mutual language with own children).
Who did little Antoine dream of becoming?(Artist).
What do you know about The Little Prince?(The little prince is very lonely. He lives on a small planet, asteroid B-612. There grew a beautiful Rose, whom the little prince began to look after. He fell in love with this capricious flower. One day the baby quarreled with her, and then he decided to travel to other planets ).
Why do you think he went on a trip?(He goes to look for another equally beautiful dream flower in the hope that this will be his true friend.)
U: PBefore ending up on planet Earth, the Little Prince flew around many stars and planets. Almost desperate to find his dream, he flew to Earth. Describe the mood of the Little Prince. Why was he sad? ( He flew around many planets and stars, but never met a friend).
Who did the Little Prince meet?(Fox)
What were the Fox and the Little Prince talking about?(The fox asks the baby to tame him).
What secret did the Fox reveal to the Little Prince? Helped answer this question
2 group , showing a re-enactment of the meeting of the Little Prince with the Fox.
Sketch “Meeting with a fox on planet Earth”
Fox:
Good morning.
A little prince:
Who are you?
Fox:
I am a fox.
A little prince:
Let's play, not so sad.
Fox:
I can't play with you. I'm not tamed.
A little prince:
Oh, then I'm sorry. What does “tamed” mean?
Fox:
To tame means to create bonds. If you tame me, we will need each other. For me you will be the only one in the world, and for you I will be the only one in the world... Just think how wonderful it will be when you tame me! Please tame me. People go to stores and buy everything ready-made, but there is no store where you can smoke friendship. That's why people don't have friends anymore. If you want to make a friend, tame me... And remember: you are forever responsible for everyone you have tamed, you are responsible for your rose”).
U: - The fox that the prince meets on Earth becomes his teacher, and it is the wise fox who explains to him what love and friendship are. What truth forgotten by people, reminds the Little Prince of foxes? (“You are forever responsible for everyone you have tamed, you are responsible for your rose”).
The fox fell silent and looked at the Little Prince for a long time.
Then he said:
Fox:
Please..! tame me!
A little prince:
I'd love to. But I have so little time. I still need to make friends and learn things,
Fox:
You can only learn those things that you tame. People no longer have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But there are no such shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends. If you want to have a friend, tame me!
A little prince:
What should you do for this?
Fox:
We must be patient. First, sit over there, at a distance, on the grass - like this. I will look sideways at you, and you remain silent, Words only interfere with understanding each other. But every day sit a little closer...
U: So the Little Prince tamed the Fox. And now the hour of farewell has come...
A little prince:
Goodbye…
Fox:
Goodbye. Here is my secret, it is very simple: only the heart is vigilant. You won’t see the most important thing with your eyes... People have forgotten this truth, but don’t forget: you are forever responsible for everyone you have tamed.
A little prince
You are responsible for my rose...
U: - The little prince has left, but always returns to those who wholeheartedly accepted the laws given by the Fox.
(The song “The Little Prince” plays, music by M.N. Tariverdiev).
Then for them the stars bloom in the night sky, and among them is the one where the Little Prince lives, where his laughter sounds. He fills the hearts of people with living water, like music, and lights in them a flame of love, a flame of mercy.And millions of lights merge into one brightly burning bonfire of love! And kindness walks royally on the earth. After all, what could be more beautiful than a kind heart, where the most merciful laws live! Open your hearts towards each other.
3 The group prepared a presentation of “Wise Thoughts.”
The French writer’s fairy tale contains many wise thoughts and reflections on eternal questions human life: about friendship, responsibility, devotion, love, about life and its values, about people’s relationships.
4 a group of "Artists" created a filmstrip based on the fairy tale
5 the group read poems about the Little Prince.
A little prince
The little prince, the golden-haired child...
Believing in a fairy tale, Baby, you live,
Maybe that's why you're not growing?
Maybe that's why you don't grow up
You can’t accept the world of boring adults.
Little Prince, golden-haired child,
Every morning you sing in your sleep,
You greet me every morning with a smile,
You’re composing a new verse for him,
You believe that the day will bring you a miracle.
And if you believe, it will be so.
The Little Prince, a boy from a fairy tale,
You look into the endless space without fear,
You know that distant stars warm
Those who believe in their light without a doubt,
Those who entrusted their dreams to them...
And you became especially dear to them...
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I'm flying from planet to planet
I want to know everything in the world
I want to be responsible for everything
I can do it - believe me.
This is difficult and very important
if someone saves others,
Call me kindness
only she is responsible for everything.
In difficult times I will come uninvited,
a drop of moisture in the desert,
I will touch the wounds with Kindness,
in that very moment your pain will cool down.
So it’s worth loving and believing,
and dream about your planet,
Measuring the pain of someone else's soul
and always be responsible for everything!
Draw me a lamb!
Draw me a lamb
With a slight wave of the hand,
In light gray curls
Let the rays play.
Let him not live in a box -
On a green meadow,
And so that the edge of the house!
I'll love him.
I'll be with our lamb
I will meet the sunrises
And honey porridge
Help collect.
I will sing to him quietly,
If he suddenly falls asleep,
Darling, what is it worth to you?
Draw it, let it live!
Would you like to have such a friend?
U: Let's draw a lamb for the little prince.
( The song “The Little Prince” is playing)
(On the board there is a sheet of Whatman paper with the heading “Draw me a lamb”, Children create a collective panel “Draw me a lamb”)
6 group p O I prepared a quiz for adults.
Our class hour is coming to an end. So we have found the answers to our question: what does it mean to be human. I don’t know about you, but I say goodbye to the Little Prince with a feeling of extraordinary sadness and melancholy, as if something infinitely dear and valuable is leaving my life. I think how our world would change if we followed such humane and clear advice from the Little Prince. I would like each of you to be at least a little like him and look at life the way this hero does. Saying goodbye to the pilot, our hero gave his adult friend a gift:
“...You will forever remain my friend. You will look at the sky at night, and there will be such a star where I live, where I laugh.”
Video
He gave the pilot and you and me hope and faith that this world can be changed, for this you just need to be Human.
I believe: in everyone forever
Goodness and joy will settle,
Love will rise and old age will recede,
There will be good friends.
And maybe the Little Prince will visit planet Earth again, where he will meet you and want to make friends with you.
The writer's main dream is to unite people.
At the teacher's suggestion, the students united by standing in a circle.
Passing the rose around, the guys expressed their opinion on how they understand the expression: “Only the heart is vigilant...
“You are responsible for those you have tamed...” - this is what Antoine de Saint Exupery said. Hug your mom or dad and quietly say these words to each other: “We are always responsible for those we have tamed.”
Class hour - opening based on a fairy tale
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
" A little prince"
Rotaneva Victoria Vladimirovna
teacher primary classes,
Volodarsky gymnasium "Sofia"
Scenario extracurricular activity for grades 5-6
"IN SEARCH OF THE LITTLE PRINCE"
(based on the philosophical fairy tale “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Slide No. 1
Presenter 1: Hi all! How's the rehearsal? Is the song working out?
Presenter 2:To be honest, not really. The concert is coming soon, but so far we have such discord.
Presenter 1:So! Don't be sour! Breathe in! Let's reach out! Smile! Turn on the soundtrack! Song "The Little Prince".
(Track No. 1)
Slide No. 2
Presenter 2:Nothing seems to be working out. A couple more rehearsals and ok!
Presenter 1:But there’s something I don’t understand! What kind of prince is this? Why is he small? And most importantly, why is it so popular? They sing songs about him, make films, and stage plays!
Presenter 2:Everything is explained very simply. It was invented by a famous French writer who was a pilot... or, conversely, a pilot who was a writer.
Slide No. 3
Presenter 1:Can you be more precise?
Presenter 2:It’s possible, but it’s no longer for me. Ask Vlad - he is our walking encyclopedia.
Slide No. 4
Vlad:I will be happy to answer you. Moreover, the encyclopedia is right at hand.
Slide No. 5
Count Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry was born in June 1900 in France in the city of Lyon, in the castle of La Moll.
Slide No. 6
His parents came from old aristocratic families.
Slide No. 7
As a child, he was a dreamer, wrote poetry, drew, learned to play the violin, and was interested in mathematics, technology and cars. His family called him “Sun King” because of the blond hair that crowned his head.
Slide No. 8
His comrades nicknamed Antoine “the astrologer” because his nose was always turned up to the sky. In 1917 he entered the Faculty of Architecture at the Paris School of Fine Arts. The turning point in his fate was 1921, when he was drafted into the army and enrolled in pilot courses.
Slide No. 9, 10, 11,12
A year later, Exupery received a pilot's license and moved to Paris, where he turned to writing.
Slide No. 13,14
Presenter 2:And I heard about his death.
Slide No. 15
On July 31, 1944, Antoine Saint-Exupery set off from an airfield on the island of Sardinia on a reconnaissance flight.
Slide No. 16
He did not return to base. For a long time nothing was known about his death. And only in 1998, in the sea near Marseille, a fisherman discovered a bracelet.
Slide No. 17
There were several inscriptions on it: Antoine, Consuelo (that was the name of the pilot’s wife) and the address of the publishing house where Saint-Exupéry’s books were published. In 2003, the wreckage of an airplane was found and raised from the bottom of the sea; one of these fragments retained the tail number corresponding to the aircraft 42-68223, which was flown by Exupery.
Slide No. 18
Vlad:On my own behalf I would like to add that he was an amazing person. An adult child who was interested in everything.
Presenter 1:Yes I know. In a book called " True stories", where they talked about virgin forests, he once saw an amazing picture. In the picture, a huge snake-boa constrictor swallowed a predatory animal.
Slide No. 19
The book said: “The boa constrictor swallows its victim whole, without chewing. After this, he can no longer move and sleeps for six months straight until he digests the food.”
The future writer drew his first picture with a colored pencil.
Slide No. 20
He showed his creation to adults and asked if they were scared.
Is the hat scary? - they objected to him.
And it wasn't a hat at all. It was a boa constrictor that swallowed an elephant. Then Exupery drew a boa constrictor from the inside so that adults could understand it more clearly.
Slide No. 21
Presenter 2:Wait! Maybe he was the little prince himself?
All: Who?
Slide number 22
Presenter 2:Exupery! This is what happens: writers portray themselves in their characters!
Vlad:Don't think! Although autobiographical features are not excluded. As far as I remember, the story in the fairy tale about the little prince is told from the perspective of the author, that is, the pilot, which means he cannot possibly be the little prince.
Presenter 1:I know what we need to do. We must find this little prince!
All:How? Is it possible? Where?
Slide No. 23
Presenter 1:Let's take it philosophical tale about it, turn on the imagination - and go! The Little Prince's home planet is the size of a house!
Slide No. 24
In addition to such major planets, like Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, there are hundreds of others, and among them are so small that they are difficult to see even with a telescope.
Slide No. 25
When an astronomer discovers such a planet, he does not give it a name, but simply a number. For example: asteroid 3251.
Slide No. 26
There are serious reasons to believe that the Little Prince flew from a planet called “asteroid B-612”. This asteroid was seen through a telescope only once, in 1909, by a Turkish astronomer. The astronomer then reported his remarkable discovery at the International Astronomical Congress. But no one believed him.
Slide No. 27
Presenter 2:But I don't see the Little Prince yet. It would be hard to miss on such a tiny planet.
The Little Prince always had this firm rule:
Slide No. 28
Get up in the morning, wash your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order.
Slide No. 29
It is imperative to weed out baobabs every day, as soon as they can already be distinguished from rose bushes: their young shoots are almost identical.
Slide No. 30
It's very boring work, but not difficult at all.
Presenter 1:Look - a rose! Such a beauty! Tell me, rose, where is the Little Prince? We are looking for him!
Slide No. 31
Rose:Ah! Je me réveille à peine...Je vous demande pardon... Je suis encore toute décoiffée.
Presenter 2:Oh, what should I do? After all, Exupery wrote his fairy tale on French and all the characters speak French.
Presenter 1:So how do we find out about the prince from her?
Presenter 2:We must call Vlad. Vlad, was “The Little Prince” published only in French?
Slide No. 32
Vlad:Well, “The Little Prince” is considered the most read and translated book in the French language; it has been translated into 250 languages and dialects, including Braille for the blind. But for the first time... Although see for yourself:
Slide No. 33
Newspaper delivery guy: (on English language) Sensation! Sensation! For children and adults! (2 times) The tale of the wonderful French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “The Little Prince”! (2 times)
Vlad:Yes, yes, for the first time famous fairy tale Exupery was published not in the original, but in translation into English.
Slide No. 34
Slide No. 35
The Little Prince was translated into Russian by the famous Soviet translator Nora Gal (Eleanor Galperina) and in her translation it was published in 1959 in the Moscow magazine.
Slide No. 36
Presenter 1:That's great. So, Rosa will be able to speak to us in Russian?
Vlad: Well, yes.
Slide No. 37
Presenter 1:Rose, tell me, where can we find the little prince?
Slide No. 38
Rose:I once sprouted from grain brought from nowhere, and the Little Prince did not take his eyes off my tiny sprout, which was unlike all the other sprouts and blades of grass. He thought: “What if this is some new variety of baobab?” But I was preparing a miracle for him, preening myself, carefully selecting colors, dressing up leisurely, trying on the petals one by one. I didn’t want to come into the world disheveled, like some poppy. I wanted to show myself in all the splendor of my beauty. Yes, I was a terrible flirt! He considered me beautiful, protected me from drafts, watered me with spring water... but, among other things, I was also very capricious... The little prince was offended and flew away. He took empty words to heart and began to feel very unhappy. Are you looking for him? If you find him, tell him that I’m waiting for him... and I won’t offend him anymore!
Presenter 2:Well, let's move on.
All:How are we going to move?
Slide No. 39
Presenter 2:The way the Little Prince did it - with migratory birds. Look - they're flying!
Dance of the Birds (Track No. 2)
The king appears on the stage
Slide No. 40
Presenter 1:Hello King!
King:Ah, here come the subjects! Come, I want to look at you.
Presenter 2:We are not subjects - we are looking for the Little Prince. He was with you, wasn't he?
King:Was. But not for long! He yawned in the presence of the monarch, although I did not allow him to do so. Then he allowed it, but he no longer wanted to yawn. And for the king, the most important thing is that he be obeyed unquestioningly. I would not tolerate disobedience. I am an absolute monarch. But I am very kind, and therefore I give only reasonable orders. If I order my general to turn into a seagull, and if the general does not carry out the order, it will not be his fault, but mine.
Il faut exiger de chacun ce que chacun peut donner. L'autorité repose d'abord sur la raison.
Presenter 1:And what does it mean?
Slide No. 41
King:Everyone must be asked what they can give. Power must first of all be reasonable. Your little prince has flown on, I have appointed him as ambassador! I also appoint you as ambassadors - fly!
Presenter 2:Look! Here's another funny character! An ambitious man lives on the second planet!
Slide No. 42
Ambitious:Clap your hands. (Bows, taking off his hat) Are you really my enthusiastic admirers?
Presenter 1:What is it like to read?
Ambitious:To honor means to admit that on this planet I am the most beautiful, the most elegant, the richest and the smartest.
Presenter 2:But there is no one else on your planet!
Ambitious:Well, give me pleasure, admire me anyway!
All: We admire.
Presenter 1:But what joy does this give you? Tell me better how we can find the Little Prince.
Ambitious:Well, give me pleasure, admire me!
Presenter 2:Screw him! Turn the page!
Slide No. 43
Vlad:On the next planet there lived a drunkard. The little prince stayed with him for only a short time, but after that he felt very sad.
Slide No. 44
The fourth planet belonged to a business man. He was so busy that when the Little Prince appeared he didn’t even raise his head.
Business man: Trois et deux font cinq. Cinq et sept douze. Douze et trois quinze. Bonjour. Quinze et sept vingt-deux. Vingt-deux et six vingt-huit. Vingt-six et cinq trente et un. Ouf! Ça fait donc cinq cent un millions six cent vingt-deux mille sept cent trenre et un.
Presenter 1:What is he doing?
Vlad:He counts the stars, believing that he owns them. Counts them and recounts them.
Slide No. 45
Presenter 2:Well, let's not disturb him - he is too absorbed in his own affairs. The fifth planet is very interesting. She is the smallest of all. It only fits a lantern and a lamplighter.
Lamplighter:(lights the lantern): Bonjour! (Extinguishes): Bonsoir!
Presenter 1:Hey lamplighter! Can you tell me how to find the Little Prince?
Slide No. 46
Lamplighter:My planet rotates faster and faster every year. It makes a full revolution in one minute, and I don't have a second to rest. Every minute I turn off the lantern and light it again. I had the little prince, but that was hours ago - by the standards of my planet, an eternity ago! Bonjour! Bonsoir!
Presenter 2:Well, who advised the little prince to visit Earth?
Slide No. 47
Vlad:Exactly! Look. (Shows the page). It was an old geographer from the sixth planet. Yes here he is .
Geographer: Visit la planète Terre. Elle a une bonne réputation.
Slide No. 48
Presenter 2:Well, on Earth we will quickly find it.
Vlad:So the seventh planet he visited was Earth. The Earth is not a simple planet! There are one hundred and eleven kings (including, of course, black ones), seven thousand geographers, nine hundred thousand businessmen, seven and a half million drunkards, three hundred and eleven million ambitious people, a total of about two billion adults.
Slide No. 49
Presenter 1(Jumps up): Oh, snake! Was it you, the snake, who bit the Little Prince?
Snake:What do you! I just helped him when he asked for it! I have wonderful poison! But first I showed him the roses!
Vlad:The Little Prince walked for a long time through sand, rocks and snow and finally came across a road. And all roads lead to people. In front of him was a garden full of roses.
Slide No. 50
The little prince saw that they all looked like his flower. And I felt very, very unhappy. His beauty told him that there was no one like her in the entire universe. And here in front of him are five thousand exactly the same flowers in the garden alone!
And then he thought: “I imagined that I owned the only flower in the world that no one else had anywhere, and it was a very ordinary rose. All I had was a simple rose and three volcanoes that were knee-high.” , and then one of them went out and, perhaps, forever... what kind of prince am I after that..." He lay down in the grass and cried.
Slide No. 51
Dance of the Roses (Track No. 3)
Slide No. 52
Fox:Are you looking for the Little Prince? I know him - he tamed me, and we became friends.
Presenter 1:How is it - tamed?
Fox:If someone tames someone, both become necessary to each other.
You can only learn those things that you tame. People no longer have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But there are no such shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends.
Slide No. 54
The little prince learned a lot by taming me. He realized that his rose was the only one in the world, and all the others were empty, because he did not love them.
I told him one secret, and I’ll tell it to you too. He very simple:
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu"avec le coeur. L"essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Only the heart is vigilant.
All:You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.
Fox: Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.
Slide No. 55
All:You are always responsible for those you have tamed.
Slide No. 56
Presenter 1:We found his footprints in the sand, and nearby the curling trail of a snake... but we never saw the Little Prince. We read the last entry in the pilot’s diary that the Little Prince, before parting, gave him five hundred million stars laughing with joyful bells.
Slide No. 57
Sand animation "The Little Prince"
Slide No. 58
(Track No. 4)
Karpova:What a touching story! Everyone will read it in their own way, because we were all children, little princes and princesses, and we all have to give childhood to our little ones, our sons and daughters. Exupery is right: we all come from childhood. And the longer we remember this, the longer we remain happy. Read this wise tale - you will become wiser.
Slide No. 59
Song "The Little Prince" ( Lisa Monde « Le petit prince »)
Le petite prince - Lisa Monde
Music: M. Tariverdiev
Words: Lisa Monde,
(in original: N. Dobronravov,
and Alisa Freindlich sings in the original)
Est-ce que c'est en effet, astres solitaires?
Je rêve, je rêve beaucoup du pays stellaire
Quand la nuit tombera, quand la nuit tombera
Des vagues écumantes déborderont.
La chanson de la nuit chassera le silence
Ton regard trés naïf briellera de loin
Tout doucement tout doucement,
Mon petit prince arrivera
Sa voix trés heureuse s’insinuera.
Je t'en pris, je t'en pris, ne me quitte pas
Le petit prince mystérieux du mon conte de fée
Garde á tout jamais, garde á tout jamais
Pour la planéte entiére, ton ame sincére.
A little prince.
Script based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The Little Prince” using the texts of “The Little Prince” of “Planet of People”, letters of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, songs of the poet-bard Sergei Poroshin.
There are two screens on stage for projecting slides. Screens are located on the right and left. A scene without any special decorations. The play is on under color music.
Presenter (slide: Saint-Exupery, slide: Malen-
cue prince):
- This story is about a star boy, the Little Prince. He was light as a ray of light and even more fragile than he seemed at first glance. He saw with his heart, never explained anything, but as a gift
gave his laughter.
- He was devoted to his Rose and always felt responsible for those he tamed. He left us and, in my opinion, this should sound a warning. Listen to what the children say.
Voice of the Little Prince:
-People grow five thousand roses in one garden... and do not find what they are looking for, but what they are looking for can be found in one single rose, in a sip of water.
(slides with images of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the Little Prince change)
Leading:
-Talk to your children more often. They don’t want to believe in bad things. Remember, in Bulgakov, the destruction caused by Margarita the Witch was stopped by her conversation with the Little Boy.
(light and music break)
(The presenter re-enters. On the slide there is an old, crowded carriage on a bench, two people with a baby and a new slide with Saint-Exupery)
Leading:
- Several years ago, during a long trip around railway, I wanted to explore this state on wheels, in which I found myself for three days. At about one o'clock in the morning I walked the entire train from end to end. The sleeping cars were empty. The first class carriages were also empty... And in third-class carriages in the corridors I had to step over people sleeping.
I stopped and, by the light of the night lamps, began to take a closer look.
The carriage was without partitions, like a barracks, and it smelled like a barracks or a police station, and the movement of the train shook and tossed bodies dumped by fatigue. The mother was breastfeeding the baby. Deadly tired, she seemed to be sleeping. Amidst the meaninglessness and chaos of these wanderings, life was transmitted to the child. I looked at my father. The skull is heavy and bare, like cobblestone. A shapeless and clumsy body, shackled by sleep in an awkward position, squeezed by work clothes. Not a person, but a lump of clay, so at night homeless tramps lie in piles of rags on the benches of the market. And I thought: poverty, dirt, ugliness - that’s not the point. But this man and this woman once met for the first time, and he probably smiled at her, and probably brought her flowers after work. Perhaps shy and awkward, he was afraid that they would laugh at him. And she, confident in her charm, out of purely feminine coquetry, perhaps, was pleased to torment him. And he, who had now turned into a machine, only capable of forging and digging, was tormented by anxiety, from which his heart sank sweetly.
It’s incomprehensible how they both turned into lumps of dirt? What terrible pressure did they come under? What distorted them so much? Why is the noble clay from which man is sculpted so deformed?
The baby somehow perched between his father and mother. But then he turns around in his sleep, and in the light of the night lamp I see his face. What a face! From these two a wonderful golden fruit was born. These shapeless coolies gave birth to a miracle of grace and charm. I looked at the smooth forehead, at the plump, tender lips and thought: here is the face of a musician, here is little Mozart, he is all promise! He is just like a little prince from some fairy tale; he would grow up warmed by vigilant, reasonable care, and he would live up to his wildest hopes!
But... little Mozart, like everyone else, will fall under the same monstrous pressure... Mozart is doomed... . The point is not to shed tears over an ulcer that never heals. Those who are struck by it do not feel it. The ulcer did not affect individual person, it is corroding all of humanity.
...In each of these people, Mozart may have been killed. (from the book “Planet of Humans” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry).
(The beginning of the song of the poet-bard S.M. Poroshin sounds)
It's hard for me to believe this already
By all indications, the trail will end.
It's not somewhere, it's in the soul,
Whatever will happen will happen
Maybe we'll look through the book again,
But we won’t fix it - we must admit:
It doesn't happen like that, it doesn't happen like that.
(Color music. Cosmic motifs. Light effect of the bottomless, ever-moving Cosmos. A slide appears: The Little Prince travels with migratory birds. The music warms up, becomes more specific. The slide goes out).
Scene 1. Meeting with the snake.
A little prince:
- Good evening.
Snake:
-Good evening.
A little prince:
-What planet did I end up on?
Snake:
-To the ground.
A little prince:
Here's how. Are there no people on Earth?
Snake:
This is a desert. Nobody lives in deserts. But the Earth is big.
A little prince:
(looks at the stars) - I would like to know why the stars shine, probably so that sooner or later each of us can find ours again. Look, here is my planet - just above us... But how far away it is!
Snake:
- Beautiful planet, what will you do here on Earth?
A little prince:
- I quarreled with my flower, it’s still lonely in the desert.
Snake:
- It’s also lonely among people.
Leading:
“I crawled at a snail’s pace over the Alps, at the mercy of the first German fighter I encountered, and chuckled quietly, remembering the super-patriots who ban my books in North Africa” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, letter to Pierre Dalloz, 06/30/1944).
Snake:
- It’s also lonely among people (silence).
Snake:
- I feel sorry for you, you are so weak on this Earth, hard as granite.
Little Prince: I heard that on your planet, people kill animals while doing some kind of hunting? (Sad) How can you want this?
The little prince goes to look for people.
There are a lot of people on stage. They walk, say something, shout something, laugh. We see a drunkard and a vain man and an official. The Little Prince walks among people. He addresses first one, then the other, but no one can hear him. A completely average-looking and completely worn-out looking man stops in the foreground. He freezes and closes his eyes. The little prince turns to him:
- Please... Draw me a lamb. (The man doesn’t hear him. He mumbles: gradually getting excited)
Wrapped:
“My hand is heavy, my leg is warm, and everything is fine, and everything is fine, and everything is fine!”
People on stage are formed into groups according to the type of clothing, type of gait, and answer the Little Prince’s questions with a characteristic fashionable laugh (“rzhalovka”) with various intonations. Exclamations like: “What a lovely baby”; “He is very nice”; "No no. You are wrong, he is original, he is very original.” Some pass by contemptuously, not noticing the Little Prince. But, one way or another, everyone bows to each other.
The switchman enters. He looks at everything as if from the outside. The personality is indifferently neutral.
A little prince:
- Why are they hiding? What are they afraid of?
Switchman:
- It’s easier that way.
A little prince:
- But they become like mushrooms.
(The switchman shrugs his shoulders vaguely).
A little prince:
- How are they in a hurry, what are they looking for?
Switchman:
- They don’t know themselves.
A little prince:
-Who do they want to catch up with?
Switchman:
-They don't want anything. They just swallowed them without chewing.
A little prince:
- Who?
Switchman:
-Circumstances.
(Slide: a boa constrictor swallows a beast. See the beginning of the book “The Little Prince”).
The Little Prince (thoughtfully):
- Only children know what they are looking for. They give their whole soul to a rag doll, and it becomes very dear to them, and if it is taken away from them, the children cry.
Switchman:
-Their happiness (leaves).
The little prince was left completely alone, because even in the middle of the conversation with the switchman, all the people gradually left the stage. The little prince is lonely. Color music should show this.
Slide: The little prince on the mountains.
A little prince:
-Good afternoon.
Echo:
-Good afternoon...day...day...
A little prince:
-Who you are?
Echo:
-Who are you... who are you... who are you...
A little prince:
- Let's be friends, I'm all alone.
Echo:
-One...One...One...
(The little prince was very upset).
A little prince:
- What a strange planet. People lack imagination. They only repeat what you tell them. (pause).
- (continues) I had a flower at home, and it was always the first to speak.
(looks into the hall)
A slide appears - The Little Prince meets the fox.
Fox:
-Please... tame me!
A little prince:
-I would be glad, but I have so little time. I still need to make friends and learn different things.
Fox:
-You can only learn those things that you tame. People no longer have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But there are no such shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends.
Leading:
- Internet? Probably, the Internet doesn’t count after all.
Fox:
-If you want to have a friend, tame me.
A little prince:
- What should be done for this?
Fox:
-We need to be patient.
Leading:
- In 1987 in Moscow, at the exhibition of the “Iris” group, a tame rat named “Fiji”, tamed by one girl, enjoyed no less success than the paintings themselves.
- And the Little Prince tamed the Fox. When you let yourself be tamed, then it happens that you cry. And now the hour of farewell has come.
Fox:
- My secret is very simple: only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.
The light goes out. Pause with color music, The stage is empty. The sounds fade away. The light goes out again.
The darkness dissipates. Business man on stage. He is very busy. The Little Prince approaches him.
A little prince:
-Good afternoon.
Business man:
- Three and two are five, five and seven are twelve. Twelve and three are fifteen. Good afternoon.
Fifteen and seven – twenty-two. Twenty two and six – twenty eight. There is no time to strike a match.
Twenty six and five – thirty one. Ugh! The total, therefore, is six hundred and one million, six hundred and twenty-four thousand, seven hundred and thirty-one.
A little prince:
-Why do you count the stars?
Business man (trying not to pay attention):
-I have so much work to do, I’m a serious person, I have no time for chatter! Two and five seven...
A little prince:
- But why do you count the stars?
Business man (dissatisfied):
- And it’s all you. (Suddenly uncertain) Maybe it’s planned? Maybe a meeting with the younger generation? Spun. Work work! You plow like an ox.
(He approaches the Little Prince. He takes him by the shoulders and speaks soulfully.)
Business man:
-Our shift. The future of the planet, go for it! (imperceptibly pushes him to the edge of the stage).
- Go for it! (brings a chair from behind the scenes and places the Little Prince on it).
-Sit...Relax... (rolls out a poster “Youth is our future” from behind the scenes, covers the Little Prince with it. Looks behind the poster. Strictly).
- Sit here (puts a tick in his book, thoughtfully)
- Everything is needed, everything is needed. So the main thing, what is the main thing? Yes... Yes... (starts counting stars again)
- Four and three are seven, five and six are eleven,
Eleven and seven - eighteen.
(The little prince approaches him.)
A little prince:
-But why do you count the stars?
Business man:
-Enough talking! Roll up your sleeves! Why aren't you busy?! (looks at the Little Prince with an angry squint)
-Or maybe you’re a tramp and you’ll be put behind bars? Not afraid? Like from another planet. (suddenly it dawned on me)
-Are you from another planet? A ray of light?
(A ray of light falls on the stage. A business man approaches it, steps on it, and tries to squeeze it with his hands.)
- You won't take it.
(The little prince approaches the beam and bathes his face in it)
The Pill Dealer enters.
Pill Dealer:
- Pills, the latest pills! You drink one and you won’t feel thirsty for a whole week. According to experts, fifty-three minutes are saved.
A little prince:
- And I go to the spring. And this way I save much more.
Leading:
- After the success of the first story, friends believe that Saint-Exupéry is ahead literary fame and suddenly…
Voice of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:
-Goodbye, now I'm a postal pilot.
Voice:
-Our operations manager needs a deputy.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
-No, no...I want to fly, just fly.
Voice:
- What about literature, Saint-Exu?
Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
-Before you write, you have to live.
The Little Prince (addressing the Business Man):
-Are you thirsty?
Business man:
- I don’t bring myself to such a state. (To the Pill Merchant)
- Can I have some packaging? (Buys and immediately swallows one tablet).
- Convenient thing. (to the Little Prince with a feeling of superiority).
- Understand. When will I learn to count these as they are? Yes, yes stars. When will I learn to count the stars! First, those that I count will become mine. They will obey me. I will own them.
A little prince:
- They will not become yours, you are mistaken. And they will not obey you. Because! Because…
Stars... they are different stars, not like you.
Business man (not paying any attention to him):
- When I learn to count stars, they will trust me to count kilograms and meters, and then kilometers and tons and ton-kilometers and square meters, and all this will become mine. And then (he closes his eyes dreamily) then...
A little prince:
- But astronomers also count stars and give them names. For example, recently one small planet was given the number 2374 and named Vladvysotsky.
Business man:
- You don’t understand anything (imitates)
-Astronomers. Do you know how to count these little ones, how are they (points to the sky)?
A little prince:
-I? (after thinking a little) I can't count the stars.
Looking at them, I remember. I remember a lot. Your flower, which you left there (confused)
-I'll immediately lose count.
(slide with Rose)
-If you love a flower - the only one that is not on any of the many millions of stars, that’s enough.
You look at the sky and feel happy. And you say to yourself: “My flower lives there somewhere.” I'll immediately lose count.
(Suddenly getting seriously angry)
- You, you... you look like a baobab tree. (quietly) Yes...to the baobab tree.
(On the slides are drawings by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from “The Little Prince” with baobabs).
Leading:
- On the planet of the Little Prince there are terrible, evil seeds... these are baobab seeds. The entire soil of the planet is contaminated with them. And if the baobab is not recognized in time, then you will not get rid of it. He will take over the entire planet. He will permeate it with his roots. And, if the planet is very small, and there are a lot of baobabs, they will tear it to shreds.
A little prince:
-There is such a firm rule. You got up in the morning, washed your face, put yourself in order - immediately put your planet in order. You definitely need to weed out baobabs every day, as they can already be distinguished from rose bushes: their young shoots are almost the same. It's very boring work, but not difficult at all.
(Addresses a business man).
- These evil seeds have sprouted in your soul, on your planet. There is no need to teach people to count stars or trample roses. How many ton-kilometers are there in human happiness? Do you think you know how much is left in your accounts?
Business man (does not listen, but counts monotonously, throwing away the bones):
- For one innocent person, there are nine guilty ones. For two innocent people, eight guilty. (Increasingly heated). For three innocent people, seven are guilty. For four innocent people (The Little Prince, in horror, covers his ears with his hands and closes his eyes).
The business man now shouts his terrible arithmetic silently. Having finished, he says: “But it’s orderly.”
The light goes out. Pause, twilight. The Little Prince sits in the corner on the edge of the stage. Only his silhouette is highlighted.
A lantern lights up at the back of the stage. The figure of a lamplighter is visible. After a while he turns off the lantern. On one screen is a drawing by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry with a lamplighter, on the other is his drawing of the Little Prince traveling with migratory birds.
Gradually the stage is filled with light. The lamplighter lights the lantern again, and turns it off again after a while. The little prince continues to sit. The soundtrack is talking to the lamplighter. The little prince remembers
Voice of the Little Prince:
- Good afternoon. Why did you turn off your lantern now?
Lamplighter:
Such an agreement. Good afternoon.
Voice of the Little Prince:
- What kind of agreement is this?
Lamplighter:
- Turn off the lantern. Good evening.
Voice of the Little Prince:
-Why did you light it again?
Lamplighter:
- That's the agreement.
Voice of the Little Prince:
-I don't understand.
Lamplighter:
-And there’s nothing to understand. An agreement is an agreement. Good afternoon (turns off the lamp, wipes sweat from his forehead). My job is hard. Once upon a time it made sense. I turned off the lantern in the morning and lit it again in the evening. I still had a day to rest and a night to sleep.
Voice of the Little Prince:
-And then the agreement changed?
Lamplighter:
-The agreement has not changed. That's the trouble! My planet rotates faster and faster year after year, but the agreement remains the same. I always want to relax. My business is bad. Good afternoon (turns out the lantern).
The light is on the Little Prince again. He gets up. Somewhere in the depths of the stage a small star lights up and goes out several times.
A little prince:
-Here is a man whom everyone would despise, and yet he alone, in my opinion, is not funny. Maybe because he thinks not only about himself. When he lights the lantern, it is as if another star or flower is born. And when he turns off the lantern, it’s as if a star or a flower is falling asleep. Great activity. It's truly useful because it's beautiful. I wish I could make friends with someone. But his planet is very tiny. There's no room for two.
(The little prince is thoughtful. He is alone on stage. A slide with Saint-Exupery on one screen, on the other - Consuelo.
The little prince leaves.
Leading:
- Consuelo, understand, I’m forty-two. I've been through a bunch of accidents. Now I can’t even jump with a parachute. Two days out of three my liver hurts. Every other day seasickness... Monstrous difficulties with money. Sleepless nights spent on work and merciless anxiety, because of which it seems easier for me to move a mountain than to cope with this work. I'm so tired, so tired!
And yet I am going, although I have so many reasons to stay, although I have a good dozen articles for dismissal from military service, especially since I have already been to the war, and even in some troubles.
I'm going... It's my duty. I'm going to war. It is unbearable for me to remain on the sidelines when others are starving; I know only one way to be in harmony with my own conscience: this way is not to shy away from suffering, to seek suffering myself, and the more the better.
I will not be denied this: after all, I physically suffer from a two-kilogram burden and when I pick up a handkerchief from the floor... I do not go to war in order to die. I follow suffering in order to gain connection with my neighbors through suffering... I don’t want to be killed, but I will readily accept just such an end. Antoine. (Letter to Consuelo's wife, April 1943).
The light goes out. It is gradually getting brighter. On stage Mime (a person in trouble) Pantomime.
The person feels good. He enjoys life. But gradually something begins to limit his movements. More and more. Now the controls appear. Something dominant over him begins to control the person. Not only with limbs, but also with facial expressions. In horror, the man notices that his face is spreading into a stupid smile. He tries to drive her away, but cannot. At some moments, a natural feeling of horror flashes across his face, but it is erased again with a stupid smile. Then the smile gives way to a grimace of animal anger. Then a grimace of satiety and pleasure, then again a stupid smile. A grimace of concentrated attention, admiration and admiration, etc., but mostly expressions alternate - a stupid smile, animal anger. At this time, the person himself freezes in some position, then suddenly jumps, then begins to march, but the movements are mostly ridiculous. His hands, like those of a puppet, either throw up or hang limply. Everything is to the beat of the music. The music suddenly stops. The man freezes in an unnatural pose, his face is vaguely concentrated. There is readiness on the face, a little bewilderment. Change in color. Different music is playing. The Little Prince enters and approaches a man in trouble.
A little prince:
-Please…. Draw me a lamb.
(There is a barely noticeable reaction on the mime’s face, something relaxes).
A little prince:
-Draw me a lamb...
(Mime looks at the Little Prince in bewilderment, listens to the sound of his words, as if remembering something).
A little prince:
- It is very important that Rose and the lamb live together.
Voice:
-But it’s very difficult. (Mime says all this with his face).
A little prince:
-Yes, of course (looks at the mime, he is still standing still)
-I'm thirsty... Let's go look for a well. (Mime throws up his hands sadly).
Voice:
- What's the point of looking for wells in the endless desert?
A little prince:
- Salvation is to take the first step. One more step. It’s with him that everything starts anew. (takes the mime by the hand and they take the first step).
Voice:
So you also know what thirst is?
A little prince:
- There are times when the heart needs water.
(A merchant of thirst pills enters and is about to say something, but the mime shows him with gestures: you don’t need to say anything and don’t need anything at all. The gesture is a plea: go away, don’t scare me away, don’t destroy it).
The Little Prince (he did not notice the pill merchant, even though he was standing in his sight):
-Do you know why the desert is good? Springs are hidden somewhere in it.
(music, light)
Voice: (slide by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
-I was amazed. Suddenly I understood why the sand glows so mysteriously.
- Whether it’s a house, the stars or the desert, the most beautiful thing about them is what you can’t see with your eyes.
The Little Prince (sad):
- You sound just like my friend Lis...
-People grow five thousand roses in one garden... and don’t find what they are looking for...
Voice:
- They don’t find it.
A little prince
-But what they are looking for can be found in one single rose, in a sip of water.
(The Presenter enters, slide with a well)
Leading:
-Water! You have neither taste nor smell, you cannot be described, you are enjoyed without understanding what you are. You are not just necessary for life, you are life. With you, bliss spreads throughout your entire being, which cannot be explained only by our five senses. You are returning to us the strength and properties on which we put a cross. By your mercy the dry springs of the heart are opened.
You are the greatest wealth in the world, but also the most fragile - you are so pure in the depths of the Earth. You can die near a source if it contains magnesium. You can die two steps away from a salt marsh lake. You do not tolerate impurities, you do not tolerate anything alien, you are a deity who is so easily frightened. But you give us infinitely simple happiness. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “Planet of Humans”).
The Little Prince (thoughtfully):
-Yes Yes…. In one single rose, in a sip of water. But you have to search with your heart. The most important thing is what you cannot see with your eyes. (Pause).
- I'll return home today. (He starts to leave, the mime follows him.) It's in vain that you follow me. (He stops. The mime follows him. Although the environment offers him strong resistance.)
The end of the song of the poet bard S.M. Poroshin sounds:
It’s like you’re going into dampness and darkness,
As if further and further from home,
And in the very heart, in the far corner,
It looks like a little boy is crying.
Only perhaps, worst of all,
That there's not even any pain left.
I don't remember him well anymore
He won't come back, he won't come back.
Voice:
-I won’t leave you, I won’t leave you, I won’t leave you... (like an echo).
A little prince:
-Each person has his own stars. For those who wander, they show the way. For scientists, they are like a problem that needs to be solved. For my businessman.
they are gold. But for all these people, the stars are silent, and you will have very special stars. You will look at the sky at night, and there will be such a star there, where I live, where I laugh, and you will hear that all the stars are laughing.
You know, it will be very nice. I will also start looking at the stars. And all the stars will be like old wells with a creaky gate, and everyone will give me a drink. Think how funny it is. You will have five hundred million bells, and I will have five hundred million springs. (Pause).
-You know... my Rose... I am responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so simple-minded. She only has four thorns; she has nothing else to protect herself from the world. OK it's all over Now…
(He takes a step, enters the beam of light and the Little Prince disappears. Mim rushes towards him, but only manages to touch the beam of light, which slowly melts. A star lights up somewhere high).
The presenter comes out. The stage is empty. On the screen - slides: photographs of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry different years in chronological order. The presenter is coming to the microphone. A business man comes out and looks at the image of Saint-Exupery.
Business man:
- But from a decent family. I would write to myself if I am writing. I would go on these, what do they call them...creative business trips. Otherwise he pretends to be a saint. But if only it were like me. Everything is along this ridge. You can't fly here.
Leading:
- Grayness always starts with envy and ends with denunciation. And today, as the presenter, I demand that you leave... At least from the stage. Take him out. (Music and light squeeze out business man from the stage).
- Like this.
(The presenter looks at the image of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry).
Leading:
-He could have died in 23, when during a demonstration flight the car began to fall apart in the air. Antoine recalled (in the voice of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry): “I’m done, but don’t fall into the festive crowd.” He pulled the car to the spot. He regained consciousness in the hospital. “How strange, I’m dead, but I still feel as if I’m alive.”
In 27, in Cap Jubi, he could have died from the bullets of nomads.
He almost drowned in the 34th in a seaplane accident at Saint-Raphael.
In December 1935, he was dying of thirst in the Libyan desert.
In February 1938, death miraculously passed him by when he crashed in Guatemala and, finally, it overtook him at his post during a combat mission on July 31, 1944. How did this happen?
He may have been the victim of a malfunctioning oxygen device. One such case, a relatively mild one, happened to him on June fifteenth, a month before his death. Another, more dangerous one at high altitude on July 14th. Either there was an accident, as happened on June 6, when the engine caught fire..., or like on June 29, when a malfunction in the engine forced him to return at low speed and at low altitude over Italian territory.
Or, finally, he was being chased by enemy fighters, although this remained unclear. The P-38 Lightning reconnaissance aircraft did not have any weapons. Saint-Exupéry wrote: “Fighters are not shot down in battle. They just kill."
From the memoirs of Jean Polissier: “...I must not forget that morning of July 25, 1944, when he left my house, getting ready for his last fateful flight... He squeezed my hands... He was sad then, it amazed us all. And so tall - he stooped a little, as if on his broad shoulders the sorrow and suffering of all people has ended.”
Leading:
- When you give up, and you seem stupid to yourself, and hope begins to disappear, you remember that somewhere on a planet so tiny that there is no room even for two, a lamplighter, observing the agreement, when night falls, lights a lantern - a small star in endless darkness. The darkness becomes even blacker. But he is not funny, for he says: “This is light, this is meaning, this is life!”
The little prince did not disappear. There is a piece of him in each of us. Keep this piece inside you. When you're cold, warm yourself up next to him. This fabulous boy, who had no place on our Earth with its adult, business thinking.
The inscription lights up: “I am tormented by the care of the gardener.... In each of these people, perhaps, Mozart has been killed.”
The slide is one of the last photographs of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Somewhere in the depths of the stage, like a beacon, a star lights up and goes out. Color music.
