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PEACE NOT WAR

Introduction: (for every exclamation or intensified feelings, stomp feet)SFX:Natures sound-FORMATION 1Skit:Little girl playing happily.afterwards, war and killings happened as she became old. (text prologue)SFX: Boom! Boom!(People started waking up)Girls: peace (calm)Boys: not war! (angry)Boys: Flesh, bloodshed, struggle and fear!//If one is sulky, one is scorned.//- FORMATION 2Girls:If one is not a noble, one is peasant.//All: There is no equality!//(STOMP)Boys: There are violence and drug abuses, /(BOYS KNEEL DOWN)Girls:sex enslavement and injustice, /Boys:discrimination and inequality,/Girls: words that reveal blasphemies, /trash talks and /anger/that lasted to be death!,/(BOYS RISE)All: and the only thing that rules the earth is/IMMORALITY!// (STOMP)Ken:Shhhhhh! // Silence! /For the end may come. // - FORMATION 3Girls-right: (actions) Voices/ are not made to speak the truth /but to hide them/because of what lies ahead for them. //Boys-right:A fear/ that spared their own lives/but killed millions of innocent ones!//Girls-left:A fear/that made them hide justice. //Boys-left:A fear/that bribes mouth with money exchanged for what is right!//

Girls: Voices were madeto shout/and scream! //Boys: Eyes/ are not made to see the reality, /Girls:But to hide the fact/and cry and weep. Eyes were closed from the beginning until now.//Boys: Scared to be aware!-left//Scared to see the truth!-right//Girls:And the hands are not made to reach out, /Boys: But to fight instead!// Our hands were built to hold knives and guns,//to stab and shoot!//This is our solution,/it?//Girls: These bloody entities were made to make us happy/despite seeing life die with it,/arent they?//Was this happipermanent?//All: This is not yet over, /this will never end/for thisis CHAOS! //This iswhat we call/WAR! //(STOMP)- FORMAT4(talking while forming)Faith: (bow down) It was the day of infamy, /Last September 11, /2001.When an airplane, /crushed its way into hu

life. //The United States of Americas, World Trade Center /shuttered. //SFX: Boom! (all will lie down)Marian:Tranquility (trankwility) and harmony/were lost, their lives were gone/in just blink of an eye.//Girls:Mothers died,/ (girls rise)Boys:Fathers vanished,/(boys rise)All: and brothers suffered!// Living no space/but distress, and shattered pieces of mind and soul. //Guess what the c

is? //TERRORISM! //(STOMP)Joshua: These were not the only days of dark ages./ Since the beginning of creation,/ temptations and sins/ obliterating pwere also born. Early civilizations/ were destroyed by their own leaders and citizens. Jesus Christ was nailed upon the cr//Colonization had brought upon bloody change /and revolutions started making their way /to human criminalities.//All: Brought by the power/of in despicable greed.Boys: Aiming for superiority? //Girls: Aiming to rule and gain money and power? //Boys: Aiming for inequality? //Girls: We are blinded by:/ power, fame and money making the world go round?// (mocked)Marian: This is just too much! //Everyday, my ears hear- FORMATION 5Others not acting: robbery, /suicides, /prostitution, /drug trafficking, /bombings, /(SFX)kidnappings.//Solo (newscaster-Giorge): (SFX-news) A family was killed on Christmas eve by their own relative, /gay couple m

suicide,/ Maguindanao massacre case, /Jun Kufuruta incident, /SM was bombed,/ innocent man chopped on NYears Eve,/ A 9-old girl was raped by her father.// - FORMATION 6

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All: (people will be surrounded by soldiers-pause) This is the beginning/of the Third World War, or /this is the featuprophecy/of Nostradamus! //Boys: Forbid though in this world,/ were everyone/is divided by one. //- FORMATION 7Girls:That separates east and west/through religion, /language,/ culture, /race, /beliefand all living creatures that exist. /All: Came from only one creator/ TERRORISM! (STOMP) Our evolving history made this creator. //Carl J: A dreadedfear/thatdivided each one of us. //Do black men need to be discriminated? //Klanz: Do people belonging to third sex deserve to be discriminated? //Rainier: And do people deserve to be discriminated for what culture and religion they have chosen? //Boys:Bloodshed, /Girls:showering of bullets,/Boys: Bombs and missiles, /All: Biochemical weapons and death! //Girls:The story/of why so many human beings,/ who were victimized/and sought for moral righteousness,All: TERRORISM! /(STOMP)Boys: Starts walking on ice/where beings die in shivering cold/ and lose their lives. //All: Get out of my life! //I was there, /I was there, /I was there!//Solo(soldiers): (people start raising their flags) Flesh and rage/started hunting in the streets of United States, /UnKingdom, /Afghanistan and Iraq. Then, the infamy disseminated on Libya, /North Korea, /China, India,/ Saudi ArabiaEurope and now, /the day has come for(sound of guns) (flags are destroyed) war, terror,/ fear and pain to reign our worlListen! (song) And you will hear/a cry of the trouble of our race, so now! //Eliminate all your senses, /Talk!/and you wilbe heard. For your rights/are separated from the others, /Behold/for the riches of life were broken. //Because we aredreamers!// Stop! This hatred,/ hatred, /hatred! //

Solo(others): (soldiers will pause for a while)You! /who did cause for the voices of the youth. (others will start pushsoldiers) Youth, /who had the right to behold for the unity, /and progress for the future year. Its time to wake up!// Its to do something!// And the clock is ticking,(song ends)(tick tock)(thunder) (God speaks to the devil while people have warCarl: What are you doing? You are my children. Youre hearts and minds shall be like little seedlings. You had gone so faryour spirits still belong to the heavens for I will always forgive you. I know that this day would come when peace and love sbe masked by sins and temptations. (devil enters)Klanz: Youre children are now mine for wickedness had conquered their hearts. (laugh) Go away!Narrators: Stop this now! We cant solve any problem if we keep on being manipulated by sins and temptations around us. will not bring any goodness. Let us forgive each other now and think for a second. Think of others, think of yourselvesthink mostly for God, whose heavens are not in peace if we arent.(Afterwards, people start to stop fighting)All: And the time /will be over and then...(SFX)(kneel down and cry for graves) (crying voices)

Solo:(skit and pause)(group of 3) Racial and Gender Discriminations, /inequalities and injustice,/ juvenile delinquenciesbullying, /mouths full of bad word, /Human, animal, and drug trafficking, /enslavement and outcast, /corruption stealing, /environmental imbalance, /unsatisfactions and lust, / trash talks and blasphemies, / greed for power, fame money. //All: Isnt this enough to say that we are not in peace? //This is a cruel society we live, unbearable for us and the generations to come. //Faith:Sometimes, /when I lie down, /tears ran down my face as I realize, / Im here comfortable /while my (skit)brothercrying /and craving for help. // Is this the society that God created? // We have gone so far and may God help us reversimmediately. //Why do we keep wounding this Earth?! //Why do we keep fixing others first before ourselves?! / /Solo(by 3): (positions then pause) Selfishness!,/ Anger!, /Arrogance!, /Hate!, /Injustice!, /Pride!, /War! /(positions pause)Turns intoKindness!, /Respect!, /Love! /And at last! Peace...Its peace and wisdom we want, like steel pad/that seus on its step. Leaving on its promised land, /may that be all? It needs to embrace the true virtue/of Peace and love.soldiers: (soldiers with knives line up together with ones holding guns) Soldiers/may march towards the war/girls: and guns/may kill millions of men!All: Homes /may be shattered, and lives may be called in danger. (guns and knives are focused on people) - FORMAT8(peace sign)Boys: But, /at the end of the day, /one thing is for sure! //Girls:This is not the end, / there is hope. //All: We, /the youth, /lay here,Boys: And wake up in the advent/of war process.Girls: Peace/ shall not only be in words but also in actions.Boys: Save our future, /Girls:join hands together, /Boys: for what we want/All: is PEACE!, / PEACE not War.

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PROPS: banners, flags, guns, knives, bag, bottle, stuffed toy

COSTUME and PORTRAYAL:

Carl-god: all white, angel wings, halo

Klanz-devil: all black, devil head band

Karl, Ken, Kenneth, Rainier-soldiers: soldier suit or boys scout

Giordano-newscaster: formal

Jedi-girl scout: Girl Scout uniform

Michelle and Ariane-doctors/nurses: Lab gown/ scrub suit

Faith-rich woman: fancy dress

Denisse-poor woman: destroyed and dirty dress

Joshua-student: uniform

Others: black t-shirt sashed with flags (United States, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Iraq,Libya, North Korea, China, Ind

Saudi Arabia, and Europe)

SONG:If there is one more gift, Id ask of you Lord..

SFX and BACKGROUND MUSIC: nature, intervals, gunshots, grenades, missiles, buildings destroyed, thunder,

airplanes crashing, earthquakes