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Selections for a Reader's Theater - From The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Speaker 1 - Way back in the days when
the grass was still green
and the pond was still wet
and the clouds were still clean,
Speaker 2 - and
the song of the Swomee-Swans rang out in space...
one morning, I came to this glorious place.
And I saw the trees!
The Truffula Trees!
Speaker 3 - The bright-colored tufts of the Truffula Trees!
Mile after mile in the fresh
morning breeze.
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Speaker 4 - "Mister!" he said with a sawdusty sneeze,
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
And I'm
asking you sir, at the top of my lungs" --
he was very upset as he shouted and puffed --
"What's that
THING you've made out of my Truffula tuft?"
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Speaker 1 - "Look Lorax,"
I said. "There's no cause for alarm.
I chopped just one tree. I am doing no harm.
Speaker
2 - I'm being quite useful. This thing is a Thneed.
A Thneed's a Fine-Something-That All-People-Need!
It's a shirt. It's a sock. It's a glove. It's a hat.
Speaker 3 - But it has
other uses. Yes, far beyond that.
You can use it for carpets. For pillows! For sheets!
Or curtains!
Or covers for bicycle seats!"
Speaker 4 - The Lorax said,
"Sir! You are crazy with greed.
There
is no one on Earth
who would buy that fool Thneed!"
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1 - "But now,"
says the Once-ler,
"Now that you're here,
the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear.
UNLESS
someone like you
cares a whole lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not.
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