Title: “The rabbit who envied the mouse”.
Author: Clara Pérez
3 Characters:
- Rabbit: Admires the mouse and would like to be like him.
- Bunny: Friend of the rabbit, tries to make him see how beautiful he is and his virtues.
- Mouse: When he realizes that the rabbit wants to be like him, he increases his virtues to the rabbit.
Act I
Setting: Garden of a house, where the rabbit and the bunny live.
Introduction: The rabbit and the bunny inhabit a beautiful garden where furtively the mouse enters to be able to look for what to eat and sometimes stops to talk to the rabbits.
Rabbit: (somewhat excited) Rabbit look at him, there he goes again!
Bunny: (Shaking her head) Well, rabbit, how long are you going to keep that up? There’s nothing special about that mouse.
Rabbit: (Emphasizing) Sure he is! Haven’t you seen his long tail, how fast he is?
Bunny: (Standing in front of the rabbit) Sometimes I think you’re a moron. Rabbit please. The animal is small, dirty, transmits diseases, invades places and people don’t like him and you want to be like him?
Rabbit: (Without looking away from the place where the mouse is sniffing around looking for food) Yes, I would love to have a tail like that, long and showy, not this little tufty tail, which makes you laugh.
Mouse: (approaching them after getting some crumbs to eat) Hello rabbits, how are you?
Rabbit: (Greeting them cheerfully) Hello my mouse friend, we are fine, but no better than you. A day of many adventures?
Mouse: Uff many, I’ve had to run many times, heroically escape from more than one broom and outwit more than one human.
Bunny: (being ironic) No sure, lots of adventure. It must be very exciting to spend your life running on a broom!
Mouse: (Ignoring the bunny’s comment) If you weren’t so big I’d invite you along on my adventures rabbit, but at that size, no matter how fast you are, you’d be caught in an instant. This is for special animals like me. With dexterity and the body of an athlete.
Rabbit: (With a frustrated face) That’s right, with this chubby body, I can only wait for my carrot and let the children play with me.
Bunny: At least they pet you and treat you well. No one says yuck, or screams when they see you. You are a beautiful animal. Ah but yes, beautiful and very stupid.
Mouse: (creating a bad atmosphere) Hey rabbit, a word of advice before I go. That bunny is very jealous of you. She wants to cut off your dreams, if I were you, I wouldn’t even be her friend.
Rabbit: (annoyed, moving towards the rabbit as if she wanted to attack him) Get out of here, you’re taking advantage of the rabbit’s stupidity to make him do more stupid things.
The mouse, smiling, runs away to escape the wrath of the rabbit.
Rabbit: Let’s go get our food, rabbit. Stop dreaming about that mouse’s adventures, he’s doing more work than a fish in a pond without water. Walk and stop dreaming.
Both rabbits leave the stage
Act II
Setting: The same garden.
Introduction: The rabbit enters the scene, hears shouting in the distance and begins to search without finding anything.
Mouse: Help! Help!
The rabbit searches everywhere without finding where the screams are coming from, until in a corner he sees the mouse caught by the tail, in a trap.
Rabbit: Mouse! What has happened to you?
Mouse: (Desperate) Rabbit, help me get out of this trap, if the owners of the house arrive they will kill me. This long tail made me fall into the trap and put my life at risk, thank goodness you came along.
Rabbit: Wait, I’ll find a way to help you. Who would have thought that your tail would almost be the cause of your death. I thank God that I have a very short tail.
The rabbit, as best he can, opens the trap and releases the mouse.
Mouse: Thanks rabbit I owe you one, as I am more agile than you, at some point I will be able to help you.
Rabbit: (Smiling at the mouse) I don’t think so mouse, I just realized that I’ve been wishing I was like a helpless animal that has no adventures, it just survives. I am very fortunate to be the way I am. I will begin to accept and love myself as God sent me into the world. I know you will have some virtues, but they will never be better than mine. For that reason alone, they are mine. Good luck mouse and watch out for the traps, the cunning rabbit will not always be there to save you.
The mouse looks a little confused for a moment but then shrugs and walks away. The rabbit approaches the audience and talks to them.
Rabbit: Did you just see everything that happened? Don’t do what I have done. Love and accept each other. You all have great courage.
He turns and walks off the stage.
THE END.