POLLUTION
This short playlet was written for and performed by Burtonwood Amateur Music and Drama Society

 

Scene

A meeting of the World's top pollutants are in the process of selecting a leader.

 

Cast

Narrator

Nuclear Fall Out

Untreated Sewage

Car Exhaust Fumes

Cigarette Smoke

Pornography

Acid Rain

Aerosol Spray

Chimney Smoke

Noise

 

Scene opens with narrator at the side of the stage with others at centre in darkness

 

Narrator

 

The pollutants of the world

To a meeting they have come

Selecting a new leader

Who will be their number one?

 

Who will be the great pollutor?

That's the title they all seek

Let us eavesdrop at the meeting

Come inside and take a peek.

 

The meeting is then lit up with each member holding a card to say who they are

 

Chimney Smoke

 

If you're looking for a leader

Then I should wear the crown

High above the streets

Polluting countryside and town

 

Covering wide areas

With smoke and gas and grit

Be sure with me around

I will make the coffin fit,

 

Acid Rain

 

I'm new to this polluting

I'm known as acid rain

Though too young to be your leader

My day will come again

 

You will see me killing grass and trees

My methods are quite cruel

From power station chimneys

Which are burning fossil fuel.

 

Untreated Sewage

 

My jobs polluting water

Oceans, rivers, seas

I'm going through a high

With my latest wheeze

 

From Norway to the Wash

The North sea takes my slime

Spreading out pollution

Killing all the seals in time.

 

Cigarette Smoke

 

I'm the subtle member

I just go and hide

While others pollute without

I am killing their inside

 

Even to non-smokers

I'm a danger, so beware

Someone smoking in the room

And I'll be over there

 

Pornography

 

Some think I shouldn't be here

For I'm a different kind

While the rest attack the body

I pollute the mind

 

You will find me on page three

Of the papers if you look

On television, video

In magazines and book.

 

Car Exhaust Fumes

 

I'm the great polluter

You find me everywhere

From just above floor level

I pollute the air.

 

The world's great oil refineries

Are my jam and bread

Provide me with pollution

In the form of smoke filled lead

 

Noise

 

You all know me I'm noisy

I stand out in the crowd

You can hear my decibels

I dress very loud.

 

I am all around you

Eating at your nerves

I should be your leader

It's no more than I deserve

 

Aerosol Spray:

 

My method is quite novel

I can do the greatest harm

By breaking down the ozone

And make the world go warm

 

I'll be melting out the ice mass

Half the world will drown

It's goodbye to New York City

And farewell to London Town.

 

Nuclear Fall Out:

 

I am the greatest danger

They keep me under wraps

But in a place like Chernobyl

I can find the smallest gaps.

 

I caused the world to panic

With the east wind in my sails

I polluted half of Europe

From Norway down to Wales.    

 

All together

 

But that's enough of talking

It will very soon be seen

Who will lead our forces

Against all that's good and clean

 

The pollutants go into a huddle as if discussing who should lead them.

After a few moments they face the audience

 

All together

 

We have listened to the arguments

We have made a mental note

Who is to be our leader

We each have had a vote

 

Who will we have as leader

We decided no one can

For the greatest of pollutants

Is the creature known as man.