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A Humorous Play for Children","Long Live Friendship! is a child-friendly humorous play featuring a friendly group of students aged 11–14 led by Vikram, the captain of their cricket team, and confronted by comical characters associated with Yamraja. The text outlines practical staging guidance: create costumes and settings using school materials, use jingle or chorus music to heighten mood, and employ simple backstage teams for lighting, sound, props, and chorus. It is presented as easy for students to perform without professional help and describes an opening scene in a garden where the group discusses Vikram’s illness, exam worries, and playful arguments.","Long Live Friendship! A Humorous  \nPlay for Children Meera Dixit  \nShailja Jain Chougule  \nRita Rakesh Yash Sheela Rohan A gang of friends between the ages of 11 and 14 .  \nVikram Yamdoot  \nYamraja  \nWatchman Vikram-very popular in the gang, captain of their cricket team. Yamdoot-Yamraja’s messenger, has been instructed by Yamraja to bring Vikram to him. Yamraja-God of death, but here he is shown tobe funny and childish, loves watching TV. Watchman-Stands outside Yamraja’s palace  \nand guards it.  \nBackstage Set Design Team, Costume Design Team, Light and Sound Designers, Prop Makers, Chorus The making of this play It is great fun to be able to act and direct plays on your own . When Meera Dixit was looking for a contemporary play that could be enjoyable as well as easy to perform by students, she could not find the right one for the situation. So she wrote this play which her students could stage without professional help. It was first staged in 20 11 and has been a big hit with students every time it has been performed.  \nDesigning the costumes for Yamraja and Yamdoot Be creative. Use paper, newspaper, thermacol and other material available in school to create the settings. This play works well with three settings-the garden where the characters first meet, an indoor room, and Yamraja’s durbar. Three of the characters need specific costumes, or just headgear and jewellery to set them apart from the other characters. They could wear beaded necklaces and head gear made out of papier mache.  \nMusic and drama Make up a jingle or a chorus. A few singers could sing these  \nwith musical accompaniments from the wings to set the mood for a scene, or to add drama to important moments in the play. No permission needed You must have observed that at the end of most plays in books, there is a line that states that you need the permission of the playwright to stage the play. However, to stage this play you need not do so as it is copyright-free . This means you can stage the play as you wish. Feel free to incorporate new ideas.  \nScene 1 When the curtain opens, there area few children on stage, in a garden setting. They are discussing something. Rita: Hey, have you heard about Vikram? It seems he has malaria. No wonder he had such a high fever!  \nRakesh: Yes, I heard about it. I spoke to his mother yesterday. She said that he is finally being treated with the right medicines. Sheela: Poor fellow, how on earth is he going to write his exams now?  \nYash: Silly girl, how can he be a poor fellow? Lucky he can’t write the exams . How I envy him! No studying, no tension, no mother breathing down his neck. Just lie there waiting to get better… Poor fellow, my foot. (Going near Rita) Look at me, all I do is study all day. Rita: (laughs) Naturally you have to study all day. How will you pass otherwise, stupid? Yash: Don’t you have anything better to dothan to pull my leg? Wait till I tell the gang about what you did the other day! You know, she... (Rita stops him.)  \nRita: Sh! Sh! If you say anything more I will…  \nRohan: Oh no! The third world war is about to begin. You two never give up, do you? Yash: It’s her, she is so .. so .. so ... irritating! Just because she studies well she thinks no end of herself.  \nRita: I don’t give up! Ha! It’s Yash who starts the fight, not me . Rohan: Stop it, you two! You’re worse than kids. Hurry up, don’t you remember we have to go and see Vikram?(Yash and Rita are making faces at one another. All depart from one wing of the stage. Return to the stage from another wing) .","cbCaijX6JKuFTEfe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijX6JKuFTEfe","pdf",781856,5,1,35,"English","en",105,"# Play Overview and Production Notes\n## Characters and Roles\n## Costumes, Settings, and Props\n## Music and Drama\n## Copyright-Free Staging Permission\n# Scene 1\n## Garden Discussion and Reactions","[{\"question\":\"Who are the main characters in the play and what roles do they have?\",\"answer\":\"Vikram is the popular gang member and captain of their cricket team. 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