http://schoolrecycling.net/PDF_Forms/activities.pdf
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Education/curriculum/ctl/46Module/Unit3/Lesson5.pdf
Cast of Characters:
The Banana Bunch
Beulah - strong-willed, loud voiced, a leader
Bitsy - shy, sweet, small voiced
Biggy - big but very agile & sweet tempered
Bopper - a rocker, a roller
Blanid - an artist, a dreamer
Bubba - a cut-up, a joke-teller
Bix - musical, mature, easy (has a saxophone, clarinet, fultaphone -- wind
instrument of choice, real or imagined; the sounds from it are real or vocalized by
Bix to sound like the instrument he plays)
They are all dressed like bananas. Being dressed like a banana is hard work, so
part of the charm of each character is dealing with the “costume” while staying in
character.
The Landfill
Approximately 10 students whose roles are unspoken but central to the play. They
are dressed in black trash bag tunics and wear plastic mesh potato or onion
sacks over their heads, with the face area cut out in a rectangle so that the
audience can see their ever shifting expressions. Throughout the play they stand
in a semi-circle, absolutely still; they look straight ahead at the audience, never at
each other. Their faces bear unhappiness and misery; they are continuously
changing, from scowl to scariness, then boredom, anything unpleasant.
The Compost Heap
Approximately 10 students who are dressed in newspaper tunics and wear hats
adorned with flowers, grasses, wheat, leaves, and other natural materials.
Throughout the play they stand in a semi-circle and sway gently, their faces full of
happiness and pleasure, their expressions continuously changing as they look at
each other and at the audience, one bright, content face after another.
The Everybody Family
Everymom
Everydad
Everybrother
Everysister
They are dressed in street clothes. They begin as environmentally disrespectful,
irresponsible waste-generators and, in the course of the play, grow to become
responsible stewards of Earth’s resources, beginning with banana skins.
The Recycling Angel
Male or female, the Recycling Angel is dressed in recyclables from head to feet.
(The challenge to props and costumes is to fashion a body suit and wings that will
be both hilarious and instructive: as a suggestion, each wing tip could have a 6-
pack of empty aluminum cans, for example, joined by string by their pop-tops, and
hanging from a spring attached to each wing tip so that the cans sway and clank
when the Recycling Angel walks, leaps, gestures.) The angel is patient and loving,
but firm about getting the Everybodies to do their part.
Plot:
The Bananas all want their skins to go to a compost heap, not the landfill. They
know that their skin will become part of some wonderful new plant someday. But
in the landfill, nothing good will come of them. They’ll just sit there and sit there
for a million years, uselessly. Because the Everybody Family is not enlightened
about recycling, composting, or other resource wise choices, they throw everything
in the trash, and it is landfilled.
The Banana Bunch decides to call upon the Recycling Angel to help educate the
Everybody Family about the virtues of recycling and composting and the vices of
landfilling.
In the end, the Everybodies -- young and old -- see the light and begin to run an
environmentally responsible household. One by one, the banana skins jump gleefully
into the compost pile. Immediately afterward, a bright flower, a tree, etc. grows up
out of the pile.
All is well. The Bananas are together in the compost and the Everybodies are
model recyclers and waste reducers. The Recycling Angel flits happily through the
audience passing out instructions on how to compost, recycle, etc.
Scene 1:
Takes place on a table where the Banana Bunch all sit “bunched” together,
apparently joined at their heads to a common stem, then separating as each
disengages to get up and present his or her perspective about wanting his/her
banana skin to go the landfill after being used by one of the Everybodies on
breakfast cereal.
Scene 2:
Takes place in the Everybody Family’s house. All over the floor are pieces of
“trash” -- paper plates, aseptic juice boxes, Styrofoam egg cartons -- very few
recyclables. This is clearly a household waiting for deliverance by the Recycling
Angel.
Scene 3:
The semicircle of the landfill and the semicircle of the compost heap are the two
central images on stage. It is here that the play’s main conflict and action take
place.
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Education/curriculum/ctl/46Module/Unit3/Lesson5.pdf
Cast of Characters:
The Banana Bunch
Beulah - strong-willed, loud voiced, a leader
Bitsy - shy, sweet, small voiced
Biggy - big but very agile & sweet tempered
Bopper - a rocker, a roller
Blanid - an artist, a dreamer
Bubba - a cut-up, a joke-teller
Bix - musical, mature, easy (has a saxophone, clarinet, fultaphone -- wind
instrument of choice, real or imagined; the sounds from it are real or vocalized by
Bix to sound like the instrument he plays)
They are all dressed like bananas. Being dressed like a banana is hard work, so
part of the charm of each character is dealing with the “costume” while staying in
character.
The Landfill
Approximately 10 students whose roles are unspoken but central to the play. They
are dressed in black trash bag tunics and wear plastic mesh potato or onion
sacks over their heads, with the face area cut out in a rectangle so that the
audience can see their ever shifting expressions. Throughout the play they stand
in a semi-circle, absolutely still; they look straight ahead at the audience, never at
each other. Their faces bear unhappiness and misery; they are continuously
changing, from scowl to scariness, then boredom, anything unpleasant.
The Compost Heap
Approximately 10 students who are dressed in newspaper tunics and wear hats
adorned with flowers, grasses, wheat, leaves, and other natural materials.
Throughout the play they stand in a semi-circle and sway gently, their faces full of
happiness and pleasure, their expressions continuously changing as they look at
each other and at the audience, one bright, content face after another.
The Everybody Family
Everymom
Everydad
Everybrother
Everysister
They are dressed in street clothes. They begin as environmentally disrespectful,
irresponsible waste-generators and, in the course of the play, grow to become
responsible stewards of Earth’s resources, beginning with banana skins.
The Recycling Angel
Male or female, the Recycling Angel is dressed in recyclables from head to feet.
(The challenge to props and costumes is to fashion a body suit and wings that will
be both hilarious and instructive: as a suggestion, each wing tip could have a 6-
pack of empty aluminum cans, for example, joined by string by their pop-tops, and
hanging from a spring attached to each wing tip so that the cans sway and clank
when the Recycling Angel walks, leaps, gestures.) The angel is patient and loving,
but firm about getting the Everybodies to do their part.
Plot:
The Bananas all want their skins to go to a compost heap, not the landfill. They
know that their skin will become part of some wonderful new plant someday. But
in the landfill, nothing good will come of them. They’ll just sit there and sit there
for a million years, uselessly. Because the Everybody Family is not enlightened
about recycling, composting, or other resource wise choices, they throw everything
in the trash, and it is landfilled.
The Banana Bunch decides to call upon the Recycling Angel to help educate the
Everybody Family about the virtues of recycling and composting and the vices of
landfilling.
In the end, the Everybodies -- young and old -- see the light and begin to run an
environmentally responsible household. One by one, the banana skins jump gleefully
into the compost pile. Immediately afterward, a bright flower, a tree, etc. grows up
out of the pile.
All is well. The Bananas are together in the compost and the Everybodies are
model recyclers and waste reducers. The Recycling Angel flits happily through the
audience passing out instructions on how to compost, recycle, etc.
Scene 1:
Takes place on a table where the Banana Bunch all sit “bunched” together,
apparently joined at their heads to a common stem, then separating as each
disengages to get up and present his or her perspective about wanting his/her
banana skin to go the landfill after being used by one of the Everybodies on
breakfast cereal.
Scene 2:
Takes place in the Everybody Family’s house. All over the floor are pieces of
“trash” -- paper plates, aseptic juice boxes, Styrofoam egg cartons -- very few
recyclables. This is clearly a household waiting for deliverance by the Recycling
Angel.
Scene 3:
The semicircle of the landfill and the semicircle of the compost heap are the two
central images on stage. It is here that the play’s main conflict and action take
place.
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