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Characters:

Tijon

Wife

Vania

Serguei

Volodia

Vasilia

Grischa  (no dialogues)

SCRIPT:

Scene I

(In Russia at Tijon’s house. Tijon enters the living room with a box full of peaches.  He shouts)

Tijon: Look what I brought you!…  Come and see this!

(His wife and four of his five children enter)

Wife: What’s the emergency!

Four Children: What is it?…  What do you have in that box?

Tijon: Look what your uncle Efrain sent you!

(Tijon opens the big box.  The four children look inside the box)

Vania: Red apples!

(Serguei touches the fruit)

Serguei: I don’t think they are apples… touch them, they are so soft!

(The four children touch the fruit)

Four children: You’re right!  They feel like velvet.

Tijon: They are peaches.

Four Children: Peaches?  What are peaches?

Tijon: Your uncle grew them in his greenhouse.  Peaches only grow in warm climate countries.

Volodia: What is a greenhouse?

Tijon: A greenhouse is a structure with glass or plastic roof and walls.  Your uncle told me that the sun heats the plants, and during winter he uses a stove to maintain the temperature warm.

Wife: I would like to eat one.

(Tijon given his wife the biggest peach)

Tijon: The biggest one is for you.

(Tijon gives a peach to each one of his children)

Tijon: Taste them, and then tell me what you think.

(Each of the children take a peach and leave)

Scene II

(Tijon and his family are having dinner)

Tijon: So, tell me… what do you think about the fruit?

Serguei: It was delicious!   I want to plant the seed, because I want to have a peach tree!

Tijon: Maybe when you grow up, you will be a farmer.

Vania: It was so delicious that I ate it all… my mom gave me half of hers, but I threw away the seed.

Tijon: What about you, Vasilia?

Vasilia: When Vania threw away the seed, I picked it up and I smashed it.  It was really hard!  Then I ate something it had inside which tasted like nuts, but it was bitter.

Tijon: What did you do with your peach?

Vasilia: I sold it.

Tijon: Ha, ha, ha…  you sold it?  Then when you grow up you will be a merchant.  What about you Volodia?  Did you like it?

Volodia: I don’t know.

Tijon: What do you mean you don’t know?  Didn’t you eat it?

Volodia: I gave it to Grischa… he is sick.  When I showed him the peach, he just looked at it… I gave it to him, but he didn’t want to take it, so I just left it beside his bed, and I left the room.

Tijon: Oh…God will reward you for what you did for your brother.

The End

By Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Russian: 29 December 1882 — February 23, 1945

Adapted by K I D S I N C O

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