HOW LONG ARE WE GOING TO LIVE ?

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BALLET(nella foresta tutti gli animali fanno un gran polverone)


PRINCE Stop! Stop everybody! (fermando la danza)
Look how dirty is the Earth!
I hate the ONE-THOUSAND-FACED MAN who doesn’t listen to our natural instinct.
We only know the real secrets of nature.
WOLF Uuuuhhhhh!
PRINCE Don’t you hear the wolf crying, the trees cracking and the land sliding?
One-thousand-faced Man, what’s the life for you?
EAGLE There’s no air to breathe nor fields to cultivate...
RHINO Yes, cultivations are poisoned and woods are dirty and bad smelling
COCK And people are sick...
BEAR ... or addicts
WILD BOAR The whole world is a pigsty!
CHORUS What a horrible smell! What a horrible smell!
PRINCE The One-thousand-faced Man is ill with dreams and drugs.
EAGLE Can we stop him?
PRINCE We must!
We must stop him like this! (uccide BUTTERFLY)
BUTTERFLY (compie un volo di morte)
ENTRANO PRINCE’S MOTHER AND FATHER
PRINCE (inginocchiandosi davanti a loro) Mother, father,
Why was I born in such a horrible world?
Take my life yourselves! (disperandosi)

BALLET ( gli animali, spaventati dalla violenza di Prince, vogliono cercare ancora il dialogo con l’uomo distruttore)

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SECONDA PARTE

DOG My friends, I’m afraid Prince is mad.
MOUSE His violence will shorten our few days of life.
DUCK Maybe he’s becoming bad and dangerous like One-thousand-faced Man!
HORSE (nitrisce) That’s better to isolate him from nature and animals.
CHORUS In prison, in prison.

BALLET(Prince viene catturato, anche se qualche animale non è d’accordo)

DUCK Well, without Prince we can try to discuss with One-thousand-faced Man and his violent friends.
MOUSE We have to understand their intentions and future plans about us and the whole nature.
DOG We want to know if we are going to be animals for slaughter, stable and zoo!
HORSE Eagle is our new Prince!
COCK Long live Eagle!
CHORUS Long live the Prince!

BALLET (gli animali addormentano il Principe catturato e si preparano all’incontro con One-thousand-faced Man e quelli della sua razza)

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TERZA PARTE

EAGLE We’re fed up with destroyed forests and extinguished species
COCK Man doesn’t believe that animals will die with mass self-execution because of human invasion and poisons left in the environment.
HORSE Whales getting stuck on beaches are victims of petrol and red mud from sewers.
BEAR The hecatomb of birds is produced by industrial pollution.
MOUSE The large herbivorous on the Alps get mad for lack of space.
WILD BOAR But not all the animals die of pollution.
Look at the pigeons. They survive in the cities.
And civilazation suits pigs and rats.
CHORUS Oh, shut up!
EAGLE Well, next victim will be the whole mankind.
Tomorrow we’ll meet One-thousand-faced Man.

BALLET (lotta tra ragione e istinto animale -irrazionalità e ignoranza umana)

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QUARTA PARTE

EAGLE (guardando in faccia l’Uomo)
The death of each vegetable or animal species is a great danger for natural balance.
HITLER Don’t worry. Biological environment is just a bit alterated and only few landscapes are changed.
On the contrary we’ve distroyed a lot of bacteria and most of all we need petroleum, coal and gas for progress!
DOG But don’t you see that you poison our food and throw plastic and dangerous rubbish into rivers, seas and woods?
HITLER Our scientists control the limits of pollution that nature can support.
And we can’t stop progress and modern technology.
We need washing powders, plastic materials and synthetic rubber, petrol engines and machines for that!
MOUSE Why don’t you use natural substances, ecological energy and depurators.
PINOCCHIO Well, actually you’re right.
Our economical and industrial development must save Nature and Laws must defend it!
ESCONO HITLER - PINOCCHIO
BEAR These are only lies.
RHINO How long are we going to live?
HORSE Their false words will not solve the problem.
DOG Our past Prince is strong. He will destroy their tricks and make the Earth clean again.
MOUSE Let’s free the Prince.
CHORUS Let’s go together.

BALLET (gli animali liberano il Principe)

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QUINTA PARTE

HORSE Come on, friends.
Prince can tell us how to defeat One-thousand-faced Man and his pack of lies.
MOUSE Our Prince will destroy them...
DOG ...and the progress they want...
RHINO ...and cages and zoo for us animals.
BEAR He will avoid the mortal danger of destruction for the whole planet.
WOLF (rivolto al Principe)
You were right. We have to declare war on One-thousand-faced Man.
COCK We are ready to fight!

BALLET (gli animali si preparano alla guerra)

WOLF Wait, brothers. He’s speaking...
PRINCE In prison, my friends, I thought about this problem.
If we use violence they will answer with violence and we’ll die all!
WILD BOAR What do you think, then?
DUCK What will we do?
PRINCE Maybe if men understand that without animals they can’t live anymore, they’ll change their mind and try to respect every kind of life.
So, I suggest to take the ark Noah built many years ago and leave them alone.
COCK Let’s go away.
CHORUS Away,away.
(Gli animali si dirigono verso l’Arca. Quando l’Uomo dai mille volti
li vede andare via, capisce che rischia di morire senza di loro.
Getta la maschera e li richiama)
HITLER Come back. We can’t survive without you. We’ll be friends forever!
CHORUS Friends forever!
BALLET (tutti insieme in amicizia e allegria)

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