Prop List:
- Two chairs
- One desk
- A cubic box
- A large painting of planets in the universe
- A calculator on the desk
- A large painting of the garden that the little prince and the fox meet each other
Costume List:
- Rose:Red dress with a crown of flowers.
- Fox: A mask or ears of fox; yellow dress
- King: A golden shiny crown with a robe with red colors
- Little Prince: a light color cloak(yellow is the best); a grey colored costume showing he has traveled a long time and distance.
Stage design
For scene one, there is a yellow background (yellow planet by drawing) and a chair. Two fake volcanoes are needed.
Scene two, the background is with several colorful planet by drawing. Wood table in front of the seat with books, notes, calculator, and feather pens.
Scene three, the background with rose garden and trees by drawing.
Scene four, same as scene one.
Character Development
Rose: 15 years old. Pride and unreasonable. Red long dress with a crown of flowers. Rose, even though loves the little Prince, shows her love through a false way in which she constantly demands things in order to let little prince stay with her. She eventually realizes her fault during the time when little prince is absent.
The Little Prince: 15 Years Old. He is naïve and simple. First appears on stage with a clean suit and while he meets the fox, his clean suit changes to a grayish costume, showing that after a long journey, he is tired and has endured hardships. He hasn't noticed her love towards the rose until he tames the fox.
Fox: Emotionally mature but appears to be young. She's nice and mild. She has fox ears. She loves the little Prince and teaches him the concept of love.
King: 40 years old and has the characteristics of the geographer, businessman and conceited man combined. He is self-centered and arrogant. He is ignorant of others' thoughts and he loves to give orders. He wears gold crown and gold cloak.
Scene 1: (Lights on, rose wakes up)
Rose: (Stretch)Ah! I am scarcely awake. I beg that you will excuse me. My petals are still all disarranged…
Prince: Oh! (stare at rose for 3 seconds)How beautiful you are!
Rose: Am I not? I am the only rose in the universe, And i was born at the same moment as the sun…
I think it is time for breakfast, if you would have the kindness to think of my needs
Little prince run away to get fresh water quickly
Rose: What took you so long? Do you want to let me starve to death?
Little prince:I.. I am sorry. I am trying to…(worried to explain)
SECRET MUSIC
Rose: Stop explaining. I bet you don’t wanna irritate the only rose in the universe
Little prince hand in the water
Rose: That’s too much! Do you want to drown me?
Rose orders the little prince all the time
Rose: Let the tiger come with their claws!
Prince: ...There are no tigers on my planet. And anyway, tigers do not eat weeds…
Rose: I AM NOT A WEED! I am the only rose in this UNIVERSE!
Prince:(stand up ) Please excuse me…
Rose: I am not at all afraid of tigers, but I have a horror of drafts. I suppose you would have a screen for me.
Prince: A horror of drafts--that is bad luck, for a plant...This flower is a very complex creature.
(Take off his cloak surround the rose)
Rose: At night I want you to put me under a glass globe. It is very cold where you live. In the place I came from…
Prince: (where you came from? You came as a seed!)
(cough cough) The screen
Prince: I was just going to look for it when you spoke to me
(cough cough)
(running around angrily)I ought not to have listened to her. One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mone perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity!!!
I love her too much and she never cares about me! I will leave her!
Black Out
Lights on
Scene 2;Wood table in front of the seat with books, notes, calculator, and feather pens
Little prince wondering
King: (play with a little flower, bored, then see LP)Ah! Here comes a subject! A visit from an admirer! (cough, clear up, sit up) Approach, so that I may see you better.
Little prince:(whisper) How could he recognize me when he had never seen me before?(Walk slowly and yawn)
King: It is contrary to etiquette to yawn in the presence of a king. I forbid you to do so. And I order you to call me Majesty!! (Hands movements)
Little Prince: (frightened, like Daxiong) Excuse me, Mr. King. I can't help it. I can't stop myself.
King: Call me MAJESTY! SECRET MUSIC
LP: Yes, sir!! I...I… mean... mean Mr. King!
King: Ah, Ok, Ok , fine! Now, I order you to yawn. It is years since I have seen anyone yawning. Yawns to me, are objects of curiosity. Come, now! It is an order!
Little prince: That frightens me… I cannot anymore…
King: Hum!Hum! Then, I order you sometime to yawn and sometimes to…
Little prince: May I sit down?
King: I order you to do so.
Do you really admire me very much?
Little prince: What does that mean——admire?
King: To admire means that you regard me as the handsomest, richest, most intelligent and powerful man on this planet.
Little prince: But you are the only man on the planet!
King: Do me this kindness, I will make you a minister.
Little prince: Minister of what?
King: Minister of—of finance! Oh wait, three and two make five. Five and seven make twelve. Fifteen and seven make twenty two, twenty two and six make twenty eightTwentysix and five make thirty one. phew! The that makes five hundred and one million,six hundred twenty two thousand, seven hundred thirty one!
Little prince: Five hundred million what?
King: I order you not to disturb me.
Little prince: Five hundred million what?
King: Little golden objects that lazy men to idle dreaming. Stars!
Little prince: And what do you do with these stars?
King: I own them. (complacent)
Little prince: I myself own a flower, which I water everyday.
King: Huh! Flower is ephemeral. (ironically smile)
Little prince: What is ephemeral?
King: It means, which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
Little prince: Is my flower in danger of speedy disappearance? (worried, kind of talking to himself, ignore King)
King: certainly it is. (smile)
Little prince: My flower is ephemeral, and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left her in my planet, all alone! I have to go back!!
King: Don’t go!! I can make you minister!!! And… You you have to explore the world outside your tiny planet!!
LP: Oh, yeah, I should continue my journey…
King: Or you can stay? !
LP: Sorry, I’m afraid I can’t. Your majesty.
King: What did you say?
LP: Bye, Mr. King, I mean your majesty…
King: (stare and then say to LP’s back) Go to earth, My friend. That’s a beautiful planet.
(Faint)
Black Out
Lights on
Scene 3
(Fox stages right, LP walks in and looks around this new world)
Fox: Good morning
Little Prince: Good morning
The little prince looks around
Fox: I’m right here
Little Prince: Who are you? You are very pretty to look at.
Fox: I am a fox. SECRET MUSIC
Little Prince: Come and play with me, I’m so unhappy.
Fox: I cannot play with you. I am not tamed…
Little Prince: Ah! Please excuse me…
Look at fox, few seconds later
Little Prince: What does that mean? Tame?
Fox: You don't live here. What is it that you are looking for?
Little prince: I’m looking for a man. What does that mean? Tame?
Fox: Man? They have guns, and they hunt. It’s very disturbing. They also raise chickens. These are their only interest. Are you looking for chicken?
Little prince: No, sir. I’m looking for friends. What does that mean, tame?
Fox: It is an act too often neglected. It means to establish ties.
Little Prince: To establish ties?
Fox: Just that. To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy, who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys, and I have no need of you, and on your part have no need of me. To you, I’m nothing more than a fox, like a hundred thousand of other foxes. But… if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
Little Prince: I’m beginning to understand. There is a flower, I think that she has tamed me.
Fox: It is possible, on the earth, one sees all sorts of things.
Little Prince: But this is not on the earth?
Fox: On another planet?
Little Prince: Yes
Fox: Are there hunters on this planet?
Little prince: No.
Fox: Ah! That’s interesting. Are there chickens?
Little prince: No.
Fox: Nothing is perfect. My life is very monotonous. I hunt similar chickens, and similar men hunt me. And in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurry back, underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.
Fox gazes at little prince for a long time.
Please tame me.
Prince: I want you very much. But I have not much time. I have friends to discover and a great things to understand.
Fox: One only understands the things that one tames. If you want a friend, tame me.
Prince: What must I do to tame you?
Fox: You must be very patient. First, you will sit down at a little distance from me, like that, in the grass. I shall look at you, out of the cover of my eye and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstanding, but you will sit a little closer to me every day…
(sit down) few days past
Prince: I have to leave here
Fox: aH, I shall cry
Little prince: It is your own fault. I never wish you any sort of harm: but you wanted me to tame you…
Fox: Go back to your planet. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Say goodbye to me, and i will make you a present of a secret.
Prince: Goodbye
Fox: goodbye. and here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what us essential is the invisible to the eye.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Prince: it is the time i have wasted for my rose...i am responsible for her
Black Out
Lights on SECRET MUSIC
Scene 4(walk to the rose)
Little prince: You are not the only rose in the universe, but you are unique. I have tamed you, and you have tamed me.
Rose: Tame? What does that mean?
Little prince: You are beautiful and you are not empty. I could die for you!
Rose: But I asked you to put me under the glass globe, to shelter me behind the screen to kill the caterpillars for me.I grumbled I boasted and even sometimes I said nothing.... (walk further, ashamed)
LP: That what makes you my rose. I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. You cast your fragrance and your radiance over me. I ought never have run away from you.(walk closer)
Rose: you ought to have guessed all the affections that lay behind my poor little strategy. I was too young to know how to express my love.
LP: I was too young to know how to love you. (repeat)
LIght faded
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