Street Play script on Drug Addiction

ADDICTION


All the members of the team start off with the formation of circle and shouting out the slogans of street theatre in circle. (May be a song that suits our contemporary youths mind)
Intention is to get the attention of the students.

May be we all choreograph a dance that will deceive the students projecting it as a fun thing to do in street! (Suggestions welcome)


We continue to get the attention of the students.

Scene I

College Campus: Entry of students to attend their 10 o clock classes, some people saying hi, hugging, enquiring about what classes, which teacher they have, discussing about assignments, visiting forum, pvr etc etc.

Lets hope the crowd by now is settling down and its time for us get on to the business.

Narrator: Hi friends, don’t be puzzled to see Christ College in chaos….
This chaos and confusion is for a cause.

(Actor I would be present among the crowd and shouts out)
Actor I: Cut the crap, don’t you people have anything better to do in life.

Narrator: Embarrassed, Don’t know what to say and counter argue.

Actor II: who is also among the crowd, Look we have people who have come see the crap also. He he he.

Actor I: Enough dude, don’t yap off too much. Now what is this all about hah…?
Talking again the same old clieshed stuff of poverty, child labour, and women harassment hah? We all know about these stuff ya. Don’t do something for the hec of doing it. You guys are a bunch of losers!

Chumma go and read for your mid semester exams da?

Narrator: Do you have 15 minutes for yourself and for your friends?
We shall give you a whole new dimension to a problem which all of us take it for granted assuming we know it all yaar…Chalta hai….



The whole team then starts to form a circle and starts shouting:

Macha Macha Macha , What ra Macha?

Different people in different tones and body language shout out..

Addiction (plain), Addiction (wondering), Addiction (questioning),
Additiction(Sarcasm)

All together shout out. Drug Addiction!


Song

Hey come on, come on
Have a look and go away
Hey come on, come on
Just taste and go away
Hey come on, come on
Have a peg and go away
Hey come on, come on
Have a puff and go away
Poor guy has lost his life, has lost his life.
Who is to be blamed, you or me?

Or

A teenager’s in the pub and he’s drunk
Another one’s on the road having a puff..
Both are wasting their life in the fun..
Ooooohhhhh

They think they ‘re cool…. they think they rock… they think they’re right..
They do not know the truth.
They’re ruining their life.

Narrartor :

All of us are aware of drug users and abusers..but my dear friends …have you ever given a thought as why these souls get into it..

Actor I: As if it is my business…why should I? I have better things to do in life than to know about a bunch of losers who waste their lives on drugs and get addicted to it.
But still out of curiosity…. Do you know why people get addicted?


Narrator: There you have already got a point..

Curiosity:


A group of youths…. (Can be mix of both boys and girls.)

Boy1: why can’t I be like Arnold ra?

Girl1: Coz Arnold is not an Indian…

Boy1: Man, I heard from a friend of mine that by taking drugs you can build your body da….I wonder how ? I am very much curious to find what that stuff is really da!

Chorus

Addiction ( plain), Addiction( wondering), Addiction ( questioning),
Additiction( Sarcasm)

All together shout out …..Drug Addiction

Narrator : This curiosity is supported by the emotional pressures an individual experiences in his or her life…

Girl 2: My life sucks ya…. I just feel my life is not worth living…Everyday got to put up with this damn life. I just don’t feel like living this life yaar.

Girl 3 : Hey come ya…Life is not all that bad , you just got to know how to make it better. You need to project yourself cool ya.. Who knows …Kal Ho Na Ho.
I ‘ll show you how life turns upside down from pain to pleasure…


Chorus

Addiction ( plain), Addiction( wondering), Addiction ( questioning),
Additiction( Sarcasm)

All together shout out …..Drug Addiction

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Narrator : We all are social beings…. No doubts about it . We tend to follow the group norms and try to be conformist …but one should not forget to draw lines and give up their personal stand on it… It sounds all good preaching but in reality……….



Group song: I am drinking my wine and I am going high.

Boy 2: Smoking is damn good… Relieves all my tensions in life. That teacher today embarrassed me so badly just because I did not do one assignment.

Girl 2: Obviously she should right…coz fault is yours.

Boy 2: Shut up … Don’t yap too much as if you do all your assignments.

Girl 2: My mom is planning to get me married! Feel like blowing her off..

Boy 2: Just chill, Tension nahi leneka… Try this for now.. Join us this evening to tension free therapy in Club X.


Narrator: W all are aware of how we get into these drugs… but how many of us standing are ignorant of the effects of Drug addiction. Their use and abuse…

There has been hundreds of researches and studies done but we all very smart people just to ignore them and carry on with pleasure seeking principle in Life.

Boy 1 : Why should we care about the harmful effects of it hah? It solves our problems and gives us relief … Lets take care of the future in the future.


Narrator : You are absolutely right my dear friend but in your little world. Forget about future , Have you any idea what all consequences it can have….

(Scene where in we have couple of friends taking drugs, alcohol, and have unsafe sex )

Narrator: You are just inviting sexually transmitted diseases. By losing your senses, your are treating your body like garbage bin ……

Scene where in we have all the psychological effects and biological effects of drug use… (Suggestion welcome as to how to portray it to the audience)

Drug and its effect :

Sedatives and Hypnotics: Blurred vision, Impaired perception of time and space( time may appear to pass too slowly or rapidly and small objects may appear large etc)
Impaired THINKING, sensitivity. Liver functions., Depression





Stimulants: These drugs excite or speed up the central nervous system.
(Cocaine, caffeine and tobacco, bidis etc).

Effects:
Can lead to tremors, severe paranoia, frightening hallucinations., violent behavior, anxiety, damage to kidneys, lungs and the brain, Loss of appetite, sleep disturbances, nervousness.

Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government
protecting us from in the drug war?



Some one once said:
There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.
--Martin H. Fischer
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No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”


“Drugs are a bet with your mind


“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem








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