As part of my Kathalaya training course last month, we were asked to write and enact our own stories. Here is what I wrote and boy was I a drama queen when I enacted it!
My props were : Dupattas of various colors (White for sugar, brown and black for chocolate and various other colors for lollipop), Sugar , Chocolate (milk and bitter) and lollipops :)
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How the Lollipop got
its shape!
Once upon a time a long
long ago there lived a lovely lady called Sugar. She was always
dressed in white and her skin dazzled in the sun. She looked like the
snow. She was a very kind and sweet lady. Wherever she went she would
spread joy and happiness. People loved talking to her,. Children
loved playing with her. But Sugar had one problem.
Chocolate!
Chocolate was Sugar's
twin sister. Chocolate and sugar were alike in a lot of ways.
Chocolate also was a very nice lady and she was also kind and people
also loved her. But every time Sugar was around Chocolate became
bitter. She was acutally a beautiful brown color but every time she
saw Sugar she would turn black in color. She was also never kind to
Sugar.
One day Sugar and
Chocolate were invited to a party. Now Chocolate was standing talking
to a few people and playing with a few children when Sugar arrived.
And a few children ran to Sugar to play with her. Chocolate was so
mad. Even though there were people talking to her she felt like
everyone was running and talking to Sugar. So she decided she would
go say a few things to Sugar.
'Well well Sister , if
it isnt you again. Same boring you.'
Sugar just smiled. '
Look at me I am dark brown today, I was light brown yesterday. Tomororw
I may be another color. But you . White white white! So boring.
People taste you and you are gone. You are so small. If there is very
little left of you they just dust you off their hands. But me ...
people love me! Even if there is very little left of me on their
hands they will lick me off. They cannot just dust me off! I can take
so many different shapes. Hearts and triangles and balloons...just
by squishing me in their hands. But you if we try to melt you
either you will become liquid ... or you will become hard!
Sugar started to cry
and ran away. She was very sad. Sugar had a favorite place... It was
a place she could only look at and never go to. That was the fire
place. But today she was so sad that she ran and sat next to her
favorite place. And she was so sad that she did not realized that she
was melting and slowly slipping away around tha place. She even
turned a little brown and sticky! When she stopped crying she was
all over the place... small puddles of Sugar everywhere.
Now this is where I
come in. Who am I ... yes yes .. I am the storyteller.... but I am
also the confectioner.
I work with both Sugar and Chocolate. I love
both Sugar and Chocolate. I think they are both unique and beautiful.
I decided that Sugar need a little bucking up. Strengthening ..
toughening up. I had seen all that Chocolate had done. So I walked up
to Sugar. Picking up all her pieces.
'See Sugar. You may be
sticky but when you are sticking its so easy to work with you. And
because you are so small .. it is also quick to work with you. You
melt like that (snap finger) and are so ready then to be shaped into
anything.'
'Anything! 'Sugar
said....
Yes lets see ... we can
make you into a sqaure or a rectangle ... but I think the best shape
for you would be a round circle ... because then it would mean you
have a center.... one point that is just the sweetest.
And so what if you are
white. I can put so many colors on you. Pink and blues and greens and
reds... and If you are int a fun mood... alll colors together... And
the best of all... when people taste you they will go ... pop...
pop... And if I put you on this stick ... no one will dust you off
their hands.! Sugar said ' Why a stick?'. Because then people will
keep licking and licking till they finish you and then they will
keep licking the stick and chewing it .. thinking about you.
And from that day
onwards ... Sugar loved being popped .. .. lollipoped!
And Chocolate ... I
made her such that every time she was without Sugar ... she would turn
bitter!
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