Class 21 created a performance to share their campaign with GLPS. It starts with a funeral to mourn the death of childhood and then it changes to a celebration with a Wall of Wishes and the rebirth of childhood. Here is their script:
Script:
MC Opening Lucy: (standing on stage right or
center)
Good evening
ladies and gentlemen. I am Moon Jung Hyeon.
We are class 21 and we are going to present our performance, Empty
Playgrounds. We chose this topic because
we wanted to show how Koreans childhoods are disappearing. Our slogan is “Why so serious?” because
Korean parents and students take the students future so serious that they give
up their childhood. We wanted to change that and make them take the students’
future more lively. Now let the
performance begin.
Obituary 1 (Grace): On November 5, 1997, a childhood died. The cause of death was parent’s decision; they decided to make a child work
hard whether they wanted it or not. They
stole their future and the childhood died as a result of not being used. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at
3am during children’s sleeping time.
Obituary 2 (Sarah)- On August 5th, 2001 children’s sleeping
time died. The cause of its death was
too much homework. Hagwon’s and
academies overloaded the sleep time with extra work and so sleep died. A funeral service for sleep will be held on
Aug 10, 2001 at midnight, after the hagwons close.
Obituary 3 (Kevin) – On January 1, 2005 free time died. The cause of death is still unknown. It could have been caused by homework,
stress, school or many other things. We
will gather to mourn the death of free time next year during Chuseok when we
might have time. Please wait patiently until then.
Obituary 4 (Belle)- On July 26, 2015 Mr. Childhood died! The cause of
death was a lot of homework and academies.
Mr. Childhood was very happy before he met academies and homework. But after meeting them he quickly got weaker
and weaker until he died. His funeral will be held on July 28, 2015.
Eulogy (Hae Rin & EunSeh)- Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Hae
Rin Jung and this is Eun she Park. Today
we had a funeral for childhood. I’m here
to talk about how childhood was when it was alive. Childhood had an unhappy, short life. It didn’t try to participate in
anything. Childhood only studied. It just took lessons forced by its
parents. The parents were full of
educational enthusiasm and they were eager to make childhood study hard.
Eun-Seh- Time flew. All spent for
studying. Childhood died and it didn’t
have any memories of playing in the playground with its friends. Only regrets! After the death of childhood
people just kept on worrying about lessons and its friends studying and
homework. Childhood never had freedom
and then it died. It was a Prisoners of
Education, a POE. The playground was
always empty.
Hae-Rin- We are here to remember and childhoods’ every alive moment and mourn
its tragic death. We should not forget
the time when childhood was alive. Thank you, we will miss you!
Closing MC Funeral (Betsy)- (center
stage, microphone)- This is the end of the funeral for childhood’s
death. We just watched the mournings of
POE’s, Prisoners of Education, and how they were attacked by education, schools,
academies and homework without having any free time or time to rest. Because we
would like to make a change in childhood’s life we now will share with you what
we wish to do if we had free time for 1 day without any school. Thank you for attending today’s funeral
performance.
Opening MC Rebirth Rachel (center Stage
microphone)- Good evening ladies and gentlemen, my name is Hye Rim. We just saw the death of our childhood and
now we are going to show you a project called Wall of Wishes. The purpose of this project was to look for
what the students do when they have free time.
From the survey, we know that students want more free time and want to
live happier lives. The first thing
students said they want to do if there was no school was eat. There were lots of people who mentioned
eating. In addition, they wanted to play
soccer, basketball, cell phone games and use the computer. Lastly, they really wanted more sleep
because due to homework they don’t get enough. Now let’s take a look at the
Wall of Wishes.
(all 3 stand in
center stage)
Ariel (center stage)- Hello I’m
So-Hyun. Actually I think spending a lot
of time in the academy is too hard for children. So if academies and schools were canceled I
would do many things. First of all, I
would eat delicious food such as jajamyeong and I’ll make happy memories with my
friends and family. I want to go to a
water park these days! I hope my wishes come true because if so I would be
really happy!
Janette- Hello my name is Chae Yoon.
Since I have been a Prisoner of Education. POE, I had no chance to enjoy
my childhood because of studying math, science, history, etc. But if school was canceled today I would go
to Everland with my friends and stay there all day long. I would do everything I did in Everland when
I was young like eating popcorn and ice cream, riding a roller coaster or the
Viking ride. If I go there, my stress
will go away with the fun memories I would make. Then maybe I can study better
the next day.
Joshua- Good evening. I’m Shu-A. Tonight, I’m going to talk about what I would
do if my school was canceled for a day.
It’s quite simple. I’ll destroy
my school with dynamite, it will bring more than 1 day of free time. But don’t
misunderstand my purpose, I want to destroy my school because it doesn’t teach
me anything educational, and not because I hate education. It kills our
eagerness in learning. If I had a free
day I would walk around the streets and enjoy my own time.
Closing MC rebirth- Jason- Good evening everyone, I’m Ji Seung. A childhood is safely born. It is born alright and lets wish that it does
not suffer any harm, has no more attacks from school, studies, homework and has
a happy life. Now the celebration of
having more free time to enjoy our childhoods is over for tonight. Remember our campaign Empty Playgrounds, and
it is our hope that we will make an impact and playgrounds will be full again.
Class lines up and bows.
