Role play action scene titled: "In 40 Years"
Characters: A beekeeper, a fisherman, an arid land, an endangered species: a whale, a 60-year-old tree that has witnessed life before and still produces abundantly despite being on arid land, and an adolescent child who connects the elements while living on the arid land.
This time, each citizen-participant embodies an impersonal role, focusing on a function, profession, or archetype. Danger is imminent from the very beginning of the scene; each character must fend for themselves to survive, as all primary resources are becoming scarce. Pollution is everywhere, and the extinction of the animal and plant world is omnipresent. Gradually, a split emerges between the characters who want to uphold humanistic values and those who begin organizing their own survival, even at the risk of jeopardizing the trajectories of other protagonists. After five minutes, the tree is killed, and the idea quickly arises that the whale faces the same danger. Intra-individual value conflicts appear: the fisherman does not want to see the whale die, the whale strands itself, the dead tree returns to haunt the living, and the arid land intimidates its occupants. Ultimately, the scene ends with the death of the whale and a loss of meaning among the living, who no longer know what to rely on to survive.
F=Facilitator, P=ParticipantÂ
P1 (whale): the sea is too warm, I am not feeling well]
P2 (beekeeper): -breaks off a branch of the tree to shade his bees-
P3 (arid land): -supports the beekeeper’s action toward the tree-
P4 (tree): -expresses suffering-