_THE DANDELION_. What? _THE KITTEN._ We'll dream. _THE DANDELION_. But how? _THE KITTEN_. It means to speak about something, that will never happen. _THE DANDELION_. But I can't. _THE KITTEN._ Little Carp taught me to dream. Well... So, when I become The Goldfish...! _THE DANDELION._ Do you want to become The Goldfish? _THE KITTEN._ Of course, not. Little Carp does. And I only dream. Listen... When I become a Goldfish again... and I get golden fins! _THE DANDELION_. Will you get golden fins? _THE KITTEN_. Well, not. Little Carp will. Don't interrupt. When I get golden fins...! _THE DANDELION_. Well? _THE KITTEN._ That's all. Little Carp would tell nothing more. And now it's your turn. _THE DANDELION._ Well, I'll try... So ... When I become The Goldfish again...! _THE KITTEN._ Well? _THE DANDELION._ When I get golden fins! _THE KITTEN._ Well? What else? _THE DANDELION._ But you didn't teach me anything else! _THE KITTEN._ Oh! How I wish I could learn what will happen to these fins. I think we aren't good at dreaming. _THE DANDELION._ Let's peep into the future. _THE KITTEN._ Let's, but what is the future? _THE DANDELION._ That's something that will certainly happen. _THE KITTEN._ Well, let's try... _ They peep into the future. _ Well? _THE DANDELION._ Ooh, it is wonderful! _THE KITTEN._ It's wonderful! Now, you'll try to learn what's in store for me, and I'll do it for you. _ They peep into the future of each other. _ Your future seems better than mine. _THE DANDELION._ Do you like it? So I give it to you. _THE KITTEN._ So do I! I give it to you. _THE DANDELION._ What do you want to give me? _THE KITTEN._ Everything! _THE DANDELION._ I give you everything too! _THE KITTEN._ Hurrah! You've given to me, and I give to you! I wish Little Carp could hear our words. He's fond of giving too. Let's give him something. _THE DANDELION._ Well, what? _THE KITTEN._ We'll give him everything too. Well... He doesn't need everything. He wants his fins. Let's give him the fins . _THE DANDELION_. Well, let's. _THE KITTEN._ Little Carp, we give you golden fins. _THE DANDELION._ And we give Moth his wings. _THE KITTEN._ Little Carp! _THE DANDELION._ Moth! _THE KITTEN._ I think, they can't hear our words. They're sleeping. Let's call them! _THE DANDELION_ and _THE KITTEN._ Moth! Little Carp! _ The Moth and The Little Carp. _ _THE KITTEN._ Moth and Little Carp! Listen, we give you your fins and wings. _THE LITTLE CARP._ Thank you. _THE MOTH._ I'm so happy. _THE LITTLE CARP._ Well... You say... How could it be! I'll get my golden fins again! _THE MOTH._ It seems to me... new wings?! _THE LITTLE CARP._ Moth, wake up! _THE MOTH._ Wake up, Little Carp! _THE LITTLE CARP._ My fins! _THE MOTH._ My wings! _THE KITTEN._ So, we've made them a present! Let's give something to somebody else. _THE LITTLE CARP._ Why... But where are my fins? _THE MOTH._ And what about wings? Give me them! _THE KITTEN._ But should one give anything, while making a present? _THE LITTLE CARP._ Oh, look at him! _THE KITTEN._ But we can't do it yet. We can only make presents. _THE MOTH._ How would you like it! Well, Little Carp, listen to what they are talking about! _THE LITTLE CARP._ Well, Moth! They seem to be deceiving us! _THE KITTEN_ and _THE DANDELION._ Deceive you?! _THE MOTH._ I was just flying over the thistles... in my dream, of course... _THE LITTLE CARP._ And you?.. _THE MOTH._ And I was woke up? _THE KITTEN_ and _THE DANDELION._ Who woke you? _THE LITTLE CARP._ I don't know how to put it... They promised to give me the fins... _THE MOTH._ Oh, I was awaken at the same moment - they promised to give me my wings... _THE KITTEN_ and _THE DANDELION._ Who promised that? _THE MOTH._ There are two know-it-alls. Am I right, Little Carp? _THE DANDELION_. Well, Kitten, we happen to be these know-it-alls, we promised... _THE KITTEN._ How could it be? I don't know how to promise. I did it accidentally! Please forgive me! _THE DANDELION_. Forgive me too! Please! _THE LITTLE CARP._ Well, we'll forgive you, but... _THE MOTH._ It can't be helped - one should keep his promise. _THE KITTEN._ But I... We can't keep promise! _THE MOTH._ So you should learn! _THE LITTLE CARP._ So you'll have to learn! And I'll go and see my dream up to the end. I want to know, how it ended. _ He leaves. _ _THE MOTH._ I may have time to fly over those thistles by the morning. (He leaves.) _THE KITTEN_ and _THE DANDELION._ Don't get upset about it! We'll keep our promise! Honest! _THE KITTEN._ Why didn't you warn me? I wouldn't have promised then. We made a present to our own misfortune. What shall we do? _THE DANDELION._ You know, I seem to know what to do. Let's... invent something! _THE KITTEN._ Hurrah! Let us! But let's whisper at first. _THE DANDELION._ Let's whisper! _ They whisper. _ _THE KITTEN._ It's a secret! _THE DANDELION._ It's our secret! _THE KITTEN._ Let's whisper a little more! _THE DANDELION._ Let's whisper then. _ They continue whispering.
      _ _ACT 2 _ _ The Smart Cat and The Fly. _ _THE FLY._ Have a good rest, sleepy-head? _THE SMART CAT._ I didn't have a wink of sleep. I was lying in wait. Do you think, it's very interesting? Give it a try! _THE FLY._ What's the news? _THE SMART CAT._ Bad news. I didn't have enough sleep. _THE FLY._ That's a good boy. You don't have to tell everything they said. I'm sure they talked nonsense. Report on what you heard. _THE SMART CAT._ I'm reporting: I didn't understand a word. I was lying in wait. _THE FLY._ What for then? _THE SMART CAT._ What for? We, cats, have this habit. _THE FLY_. So you didn't hear a word? _THE SMART CAT._ Pains me to hear it! We cats have a keen ear... But my memory... _THE FLY._ Can you remember at least one word? _THE SMART CAT_. Mm... We often repeat it. _THE FLY._ "Promise"? _THE SMART CAT._ Another one... One says, when he's lying. _THE FLY._ "Honest". _THE SMART CAT. _That's right. That's what they were talking about. _THE FLY_. How interesting! Could you even imagine it? Such a little but harmful seed has flown here from behind these thistles! _THE SMART CAT_. What are you talking about? _THE FLY_. Wait, you'll see what the things will be like! _THE SMART CAT_. I don't like anybody, saying contradictions. I can't understand it! _THE FLY._ It's quite easy - As you sow, you shall reap. _THE SMART CAT_. What shall one sow? _THE FLY._ Sow the wind... _THE SMART CAT_. And what shall one reap? _THE FLY._ And reap the whirlwind. As you sow you shall reap! _THE SMART CAT._ But why does one reap not, what he's sown? _THE FLY. _Nobody knows, what grow on our ground!.. _THE SMART CAT_. What will grow? _THE FLY._ Well, Smart Cat!.. _THE SMART CAT_. Oh, Fly!.. Well... We need a plan! How to save ourselves from it! _THE FLY_. How nice of you to understand it! Let's think it over. _ They are whispering. _ _THE SMART CAT._ Hush! Who is coming here? _ They disappear. The Old Boot and The Pot. _ _THE OLD BOOT. _How are you?! Still rattling, aren't you? _THE POT._ I am. Well, is the night over? _THE OLD BOOT._ Of course, it is. And the day will certainly be over. Everything passes: morning, day, evening, night... _THE POT_. It is an old custom. _THE OLD BOOT. _But we shall never be worn out. _THE POT_. We are inanimate objects. _ The Moth and The Little Carp. _ _THE LITTLE CARP._ I'll soon get my golden fins. _THE MOTH._ And they promised to give me the wings! _THE OLD BOOT_. Oh, as soon as you start dreaming of something they'll immediately interrupt you! _THE POT._ They'll immediately interrupt you! _THE POT._ They'll find and certainly interrupt! Certainly! _THE LITTLE CARP._ Oh, Moth, if you ever could imagine, how these two old whimperers bother me! _THE MOTH._ Little Carp, I'm bored to death with this lame Boot! _THE OLD BOOT._ Come! Come! If you were more careful, you could notice long ago that I'm the left one! _THE POT_. And I'm always right! _THE LITTLE CARP._ And I'll get the fins! _THE MOTH._ And I'll get the wings! _THE LITTLE CARP._ I'll swim away! _THE MOTH. _I'll fly away! _THE OLD BOOT_. I say! We can dream better, can't we, Pot? _THE POT_. We can! You can't even imagine! _THE LITTLE CARP_. Well, try then and show us how you do! _THE MOTH_. You can't! _THE OLD BOOT_. Ah! Well... I... Mm... _THE POT _(is prompting). I can dream... so... _THE OLD BOOT_. Can dream so... _THE POT _(is prompting). That... _THE OLD BOOT_. That!.. _THE MOTH._ Is that all? _THE OLD BOOT_. It is all! _THE LITTLE CARP_. It is clear. _THE POT_. Feel envious? Well, Boot, Tell them, how the day passes. _THE OLD BOOT_. Day passes and... _THE LITTLE CARP_. Stop talking! You are dreaming in the wrong way! One shouldn't dream as you do! _THE OLD BOOT_. I am right! _THE MOTH_. Try to dream of the most important thing. _THE OLD BOOT_. That's what I'm doing: everything passes, everything goes to its end... _THE LITTLE CARP_. Boot, tell me, do you have something valuable? _THE OLD BOOT_. I have... My thoughts! _THE LITTLE CARP_. No, the most important thing, you've got is your sole. _THE OLD BOOT_. My sole! _THE MOTH_. And what about you, Pot? _THE POT_. My soul! _THE MOTH_. No, Pot, it's your cover. _THE POT_. Cover! _THE MOTH _and _THE LITTLE CARP_. And you should dream of this! _THE POT_. My Cover! _THE OLD BOOT_. Sole! _THE LITTLE CARP_. Oh, my fins. _THE MOTH_. My wings. _THE LITTLE CARP_. I'll swim to the black sea! _THE MOTH_. I'll fly to high pine-trees! _THE OLD BOOT_. I can't remain on my feet! _THE POT_. I'm boiling with life! _THE OLD BOOT _(suddenly). Let's take the field! _EVERYBODY_. The field! The field! _THE OLD BOOT_. We are marching together! _EVERYBODY_. Together! _THE POT_. We are singing our song loudly! _EVERYBODY_. Our song! _THE LITTLE CARP_. We'll try to catch the sunshine! _EVERYBODY_. The sunshine! _THE MOTH_. We'll be jumping over the thistle! _EVERYBODY_. Over the thistles! _ They sing their song. _ _THE OLD BOOT_. We are marching together! _EVERYBODY_. Together! _THE POT_. Go on, music! _EVERYBODY_. Music! _THE LITTLE CARP_. Hello, Sunshine! _EVERYBODY_. Sunshine! _THE MOTH_. Our beautiful dream has got the wings! _EVERYBODY_. The wings! _ They leave singing. The Smart Cat and The Fly. _ _THE SMART CAT_. How silly they are! They'll never get over the thistles! _THE FLY_. The sun will set by the evening, they'll lose their way! _THE SMART CAT_. They can't see anything in the darkness! _THE FLY_. They can't see anything in the darkness! _THE FLY_. They'll step on each others feet! They'll beat each other up! They'll quarrel! _THE SMART CAT_. They'll attack each other! _THE FLY_. They'll quarrel! _THE SMART CAT_. They'll beat each other! _THE FLY_. They'll return back. They won't get over the thistles! _THE SMART CAT_. The sun will set! They'll lose their way! _THE FLY_. They'll deceive themselves. _THE SMART CAT_. They'll return! Quarrel! That's it! _THE FLY. _They'll quarrel! This way... _ They start beating each other. _ _THE SMART CAT_. Oh' They'll tease each other! _THE FLY_. They'll attack! _THE SMART CAT_. Hide! _THE FLY_. Bite one another! _THE SMART CAT_. My only eye! _THE FLY_. My only sixth leg! _ Stop beating each other. _ _THE SMART CAT_. Smart Cat is nice, shrewd, clever, cowardly! Calm down, take away your paw. drop your tail, hide your claws, open your eye. You can't open it! Well, purr then... Mrr... How silly they are! _THE FLY. _You see now, our first plan didn't work. We thought it over for nothing! _THE SMART CAT_. I see! I can't see anything! How dark it is!.. They can't see in the darkness! Neither do I now! Why did you bite me? _THE FLY_. Night will soon fall. Sun will set. Still we have the time to start the quarrel between them. We should steal their friendship. _THE SMART CAT_. I'm always ready to steal something. _THE FLY_. Then, listen. I am small, so I'll follow Little Carp, Moth, Old Boot and Pot. I'll attack then in the darkness and make them quarrel. Their friendship is so small, that I'll be able to steal it. And you, Smart Cat, stay here with Kitten and Dandelion. They've got the large friendship. _THE SMART CAT_. I'm fond of stealing large things. _THE FLY_. See you then! (Disappears.) _THE SMART CAT_. Off away with you! I'll get along myself! What shall I begin with? First of all, I'll attack them. I'll steal up to them and attack. But Kitten has got a keen ear, he'll hear me approaching. I'd rather try to overhear, what they are talking about. Oh, I hear something, what shall I do then? I should be clever. I'll lie to them. But they will realize that I'm lying. And I must lie so that they could believe me. What shall I tell them? Oh, I'll tell then the truth. I think I,m the first to lie like that. Well, I'll steal up to them and tell a lie. No, I'd rather attack them and tell a lie! No, it would be better to deceive them and then tell a lie! I'll steal up to them... I'll attack them... I'll tell them a lie... Mm... No, I'd rather come up to them, without stealing up. I'll come up and... tell a lie. So they won't understand, that I'm lying. Oh, what a Smart Cat I am! Fly could never even imagine this. So, I'll go. I'm already going! _ The Dandelion and The Kitten, The Smart Cat. _ _THE SMART CAT_. Hey! I'm not going to make friends with you! I'm not interest in it! It is so dull! (I shouldn't mix anything and tell them a lie, otherwise they'll understand everything). While you making plans and whispering, Little Carp and Moth has already gone to get their fins and wings. (Oh, I'm telling the truth for the first time in the whole life. I'm excited! The truth appears to tickle my nerves.) Well. While you are making plans, malicious Fly has followed them. She'll make them quarrel. And she'll steal their friendship. They've got small friendship, and it'll be easy to steal it. The Sun will set, they'll lose their way. They won't see their Happinness, as one can't see his own tail! (I seem to have told a lie. Here is my tail. What if they don't believe me?.) _THE KITTEN. _Oh, Golden fins! _THE DANDELION. _Wings? _THE SMART CAT_. They'll be lost! They'll lost their way! _THE KITTEN_. Lost their way! _THE DANDELION_. They'll be lost! _THE SMART CAT_. Night has fallen. It has Honest! _THE DANDELION. _Honest! We gave the promise! _THE SMART CAT_. Sun is setting. They can't see in the darkness. _THE KITTEN_. But I can! _THE SMART CAT_. They'll lose their way! _THE KITTEN_. But I won't lose it! _THE DANDELION_. Kitten, you run after them! Find them and show them the way! _THE KITTEN_. I shall! And what about you? _THE DANDELION_. I'll light up your way! Kitten, you run, run without turning back! _THE KITTEN_. But it means to save myself! _THE DANDELION_. Kitten, you run and don't lose the time! _THE KITTEN_. But it means to leave! _THE DANDELION_. Good bye, Kitten! Don't turn around! Run away! _ The Kitten runs away. _ _THE SMART CAT_. I feel ill at ease! I'm going to cry! Parting words! The stolen friendship! _ Night. The Kitten. _ _THE KITTEN_. Now to turn around! I'll run! To save small friendship for the sake of large one! To run! Forward! Not to turn around! Not to leave! Not to save myself! Not to steal up! Not to deceive! To run forward! To run!.. To run... I'm tired. Not to get tired! I'm in despair. Not to be in despair! To run... Run.. I seem to be crying. Not to cry! To run.... To run... _ Different voices in the darkness. Song is breaking down. _ _THE OLD BOOT_. Together... _THE POT_. Go on, music... _THE LITTLE CARP_. Sunshine... _THE MOTH_. Wings... _ The Boot and then the others. _ _THE OLD BOOT_. Together. Together. I'm the left boot. I'm going alone. _THE MOTH_. They stopped on me. _THE LITTLE CARP_. They pushed me. _THE POT_. Somebody attacked me in the darkness. _THE OLD BOOT_. We've lost our way! _THE POT_. We didn't finish our song. _THE MOTH_. Wings dropped. _THE LITTLE CARP_. Sun has grown dark. _THE OLD BOOT_. March together! Why should we march together, if nothing could be seen in the darkness. _THE POT_. Why should we sing our song in the darkness? _THE MOTH_. How could we go after sun if it's set? _THE OLD BOOT_. We shouldn't... march together. _THE POT_. Our song... is sung. _THE MOTH_. The wings... are crumpled. _THE LITTLE CARP_. The sun has set. _THE FLY._ Ha-ha! What a sad end! The army is depressed! Distant victory and sad end! Ha-ha-ha! _ The Kitten. _ _THE KITTEN_. We'll march together again! _THE POT_. Again! _THE KITTEN_. A New sun has risen! _THE LITTLE CARP_. A New sun! _THE KITTEN_. Our dream's got the wings! _THE MOTH_. Wings! _ They sing their song again. _ _THE KITTEN_. Together! _EVERYBODY_. Together! _THE KITTEN_. Our song! _EVERYBODY_. Our song! _THE KITTEN_. Sunshine! _EVERYBODY_. Sunshine! _THE KITTEN_. Wings! _EVERYBODY_. Wings! _THE FLY_. I'll follow them. _ Thistles. _ _THE OLD BOOT_. We have come at last. Thank you, Kitten. Here they are. I can see them. _THE POT_. We have come at last. Thank you, Kitten. Here they are. I can see them. _THE POT_. How frightful they are! Malicious! Thorny! _THE LITTLE CARP_. Listen, friends! We must get over them today! Let's forget our quarrels! _THE MOTH_. Let's ask them to help us have our way. They may be kind in reality. Perhaps they only try to look frightful! It happens, I know! _THE KITTEN_. Thistles! _THE LITTLE CARP_. I don't think, they hear our words. They are talking. (Everybody tries to understand, what the thistles are talking about.) _THE KITTEN_. But they keep silent! They can't understand our words! _THE MOTH_. Another world is waiting for us there! _EVERYBODY_. Another world! _THE LITTLE CARP_. We'll get another way of living there! _EVERYBODY_. Another way of living! _THE OLD BOOT_. Let us have our way! _THE POT_. Let us, please! _ They listen. _ _THE KITTEN_. They can't hear our words! _THE OLD BOOT_. How quiet it is here!.. I am afraid. _THE POT_. I feel cold. _THE KITTEN_. Look, the light goes out. Let's go ahead! _THE LITTLE CARP_. Let's gather all our strength. _THE MOTH_. Gather the best we have! _THE OLD BOOT_. Go ahead! _ Mute scene. They attach. The Fly. _ _THE FLY_. What are you doing! They are trying to get over. You won't get over here! I can see everything. _THE OLD BOOT_. Let's go ahead! _THE FLY_. What are you doing! You'll be hurt all over! You'll be wounded, you'll tear your clothes! _THE MOTH_. Go ahead! _THE FLY_. So, I won't disturb you. Well... I can't understand. Look back! Look, what you've left! You've got used to such a way of living. And nobody knows, what's in store for you. You, Little Carp, have used to your bog. And Moth hasn't woven his cocoon to the winter yet. And what about you, Boot and Pot. What are your reasons? Did you need anything here? You lived by yourselves. And what are your reasons? And you, Kitten turn back, your best friend maybe dying there! _ Everybody stop. _ _THE KITTEN_. Don't look back! Don't turn back! Don't doubt! _THE FLY_. It's silly of you to do it. You haven't gone a half of the way yet. Yes. I can see everything. And beside, behind these thistles there are the others. They are more frightful and thorny! I warn you! _THE MOTH_. The are thorny... _THE LITTLE CARP_. Frightful... _THE OLD BOOT_. Oh-Oh! I've hurt myself! _THE POT_. I got scratched! _THE LITTLE CARP_. I've caught on it. _THE MOTH_. I've hurt myself. _THE FLY_. Go back! _THE KITTEN_. Ahead! Let's gather our strength. Just a few have left to us. _THE OLD BOOT_. How do you know? _THE POT_. Who told you this? _THE LITTLE CARP_. Listen, Fly, would it be better for us to turn to one side a little! _THE FLY_. Turn to your right. _THE OLD BOOT_. It's must easier here! Let's go here! _THE FLY_. You'd better go to your right a little more! _THE POT_. Go here! It's not so perilously here! _THE FLY_. A little more once again! _THE LITTLE CARP_. It's so easy to go right here! Go here, Friends! _THE KITTEN_. Go ahead! _THE MOTH_. We've got out! _THE KITTEN_. It's the garbage dump! _EVERYBODY_. The garbage dump! _THE FLY_. Ha-ha-ha! Made sure? And now fall in and march in step. Let's sing a song! _THE OLD BOOT_. Together! _THE POT_. Come on, music! _THE LITTLE CARP_. Hello, Sunshine! _THE MOTH_. Our beautiful dream has got the wings! _ Damp. The Smart Cat and The Dandelion. _ _THE SMART CAT_. I've kept watching over him for the whole night. I've been lying in wait. I haven't had a wink of sleep for several nights. It fell to my lot... But, what the results are! - He's turned grey. Not me, it's Dandelion, that's turned grey. Any will turn grey, if your best friend leaves you. How unjust it's everywhere! Everywhere! But where's Fly? What are the results? Well, let's see... Dandelion... shone their way for the whole night. How can one do everything at once? I warned him not to do it! - In vain. He shone for the whole night. And here the results! I ask you to switch off the light, when you are leaving (I'm approaching to the point, you know.) I can't look at him - he's changed a lot for these 2 days: first he was green, then yellow and now he's turned grey. I feel pity for him. How could he do that? When you leave, please... Oh, I've already warned you about it. How awful it is! But that is what I wanted, didn't I? Well, it's dangerous to tell the truth. And what if this happens to me? Could I do it? Without having a wink of sleep... He shone for the whole night... Well, I've already told you about it. Let's wait for Fly to come. Let her look at him. But it's better not to look at him at all. How awful it is! Well, it's dangerous to tell the truth... And I've told you about it too! There's nothing unknown in this world. Everything has been told. For the life of me! Well... the only thing, left for us is to live ourselves, There is nothing to add. What happens to me? - I'm telling the truth, and there's nobody to listen to it. I have to be so sophisticated. And this is my life... Oh, my life... I was born. How was I born? - They simply threw me away, and that of it? They made me home my own way. And I have. But who won't have it? Will he? Nobody asked him or tried to persuade him. Honest! What if you try to persuade me. Nobody knows, what will come of it... I have my own way, and I can rely only on myself. I don't need to think of anybody else... They'll get along without me. What a good boy I am! They'll keep me in mind! But will they! They'll forget me immediately! As if I have never lived here. Well, I'll get along without them! I shall! There are many of us here. And there are just a few of them. They seem to be returning. I can hear them approaching. I am leaving... But why should I hide myself?.. It's my desert, that he... He's still alive! And what if I?.. _ Fly. _ _THE FLY_. Well. I warned them. I was right. I flied and saw everything. He's such a delicate person. And what results! After one night of there were two of them? Or three of them? Well, Smart Cat, you've done a lot without me. What a good boy you are? I'll reward you for your devoted job. You know, there, in the ravine there is a fish head. It's for you. _THE SMART CAT_. Thank you. But don't boast about yourself. Well I'm leaving... (He tries to listen.) No, I'll prefer to watch the meeting of the friends first. Perhaps, tears will fall from my eyes. _THE FLY_. Well, let's watch it. _ The Kitten, The Old Boot, The Pot, The Little Carp, The Moth singing. _ How are you, heroes? How are you, Kitten? Where are your friend? And what about you, Little Carp, where are your fins? Moth, have you got your new wings? Ha-ha-ha! Why are you so silent? You sang your song while walking on your road: Together! Our song! Sun! Wings! Look at each other - what have you got? You are silent... _EVERYBODY_. She deceived us. _THE KITTEN _(to Dandelion). Are You silent? I've returned. Why do you keep silent? You lit our way the whole night. I could see our way even when my eyes got tired. But they deceived me. Do your hear me, Dandelion? _THE FLY_. Certainly not, He's went deaf his sorrow. _THE DANDELION_. I hear you... _THE KITTEN_. Tell me something. Shout at me! _THE DANDELION_. ...if you've got a brave heart... _THE KITTEN_. Heart! _THE DANDELION_. ...if you even were born in the rubbish heap... _THE KITTEN_. If you were born! _THE FLY_. Don't listen to him! Close your ears! He's got mad! _THE SMART CAT_. Oh, tears sprang to my eyes. _THE DANDELION_. ...even if you were deceived... _THE KITTEN_. We're deceived! _THE FLY_. He talks nonsense! _THE DANDELION_. ...if you saw your way... _THE KITTEN_. My way! _THE FLY_. He's dying! Dying! _THE OLD BOOT_. Everything will die. _THE POT_. Everything passes. _THE DANDELION_. ...everything has changed around me... _THE FLY_. It's our life! Ha-ha-ha. _THE DANDELION_. Life... I love... Something hurts my eyes... _THE FLY_. It is the light. Ha-ha-ha! _THE DANDELION_. The light... I love... It hurts me... _THE FLY_. It's our life! Ha-ha-ha. _THE DANDELION_. Our life... I love... _THE FLY_. He's died. He's fallen in battle. _THE DANDELION_. How stuffy it is! Kitten please blow at me. _THE KITTEN_. Wait a minute, wait... (Blows.) _THE FLY_. He fell! _THE SMART CAT_. He fell off! _THE OLD BOOT_. He is over! _THE POT_. He's worn out! _ White snowstorm. _ _THE KITTEN_. Forgive me! Do you hear me? Forgive me! _THE DANDELION'S VOICE_. ...if you've got a brave heart... even if you were born in the garbage dump... if you saw your way... even if you were deceived... _THE KITTEN_. I hear! I know! I've got a brave heart! _THE SMART CAT_. Where are you going, Kitten? _THE FLY_. Wait a minute! _THE OLD BOOT_. Good-bye! _THE POT_. Kitten! _THE LITTLE CARP_. Don't turn back! _THE MOTH_. Run away! _THE KITTEN. _Come on! _____ Heart, together Come on, music Come on, Sunshine Flying! Wether! __
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      --===Дорогая Елена Сергеевна, предисловие===-
      *"Как могло получиться, что вопрос о необходимости снятия этой пьесы поставило не министерство культуры, а комитет государственной безопасности?" - грозно вопрошал М. С. Горбачев на заседании секретариата ЦК КПСС 26 апреля 1983 года. (Цитирую по книге Волкогонова "Ленин", стр. 197) После чего пьеса и все спектакли, поставленные к тому времени в Советском Союзе, естественно были запрещены.*
      *А начиналось все очень невинно. Согласно культурным обычаям брежневского застойного времени, начинающий драматург Л. Разумовская заключила с министерством культуры договор о написании пьесы "о трудных" подростках. Тема была вполне "проходимая" и ничего дурного ни для кого не предвещала. Шло время, нужно было отрабатывать аванс и в легкомысленной голове автора сложилась завязка, требовавшая вполне определенного развития действия и доведения его до логического конца. (По принципу импровизационно развивающегося актерского этюда).*
      *Действие было доведено, и когда в последствии приходилось слышать за спиной шептания: "какая маленькая женщина... какая смелая", - автору было смешно и неловко, ничего героического в своем акте она не видела. (Хотя на ковер вызывали и грозные речи произносили).*
      *Когда осенью 80-го года на семинаре молодых драматургов в Дубулты впервые была прочитана пьеса в пристутсиви других авторов и министерства культуры, она произвела эффект разорвавшейся бомбы. Редакторы из министерства тут же открестились от пьесы, сделав вид, что такой нет и никогда не было. Но судьба распорядилась иначе - уже через год храбрые эстонцы поставили пьесу в Таллинне в Молодежном театре. Это был дебют не только пьесы, но и автора. А спустя еще год молодой режиссер Семен Спивак с благословения и при художественной поддержке главного режиссера театра им. Ленинского комсомола Г. М. Опоркова поставил пьесу в Ленинграде.*
      *Не было конца "сдачам" спектакля и переделкам пьес. "Принимали", вернее не принимали, многочисленные инстанции, ведающие культурой, комсомольские, партийные и государственные. На одной из "сдач" присутствовали маститые драматурги из Москвы и Ленинграда. И статья Виктора Сергеевича Розова в защиту пьесы на страницах "Литературной газеты" послужила ей наилучшей рекламой.*
      *Пьесу узнали во всей стране, и везде, где только местные партийные власти разрешали постановку, ее ставили, и она шла с огромным зрительским успехом, вызывая большой общественный резонанс. Но это продолжалось не более года...*
      *Спустя несколько лет после запрещения, в начале горбачевской перестройки о пьесе снова вспомнили. Эльдар Рязанов снял фильм с замечательной актрисой Мариной Нееловой в главной роли Елены Сергеевны, возобновились спектакли в театрах. Пьеса перелетела за рубеж. В течение последних десяти лет она была поставлена почти во всех европейских странах, а так же в Америке и Канаде. Самый большой успех на ее долю выпал в Германии, где, пожалуй, нет ни оного города, где бы ни шла "Дорогая Елена Сергеевна".*
      *Может быть не лучшая, но, безусловно, самая известная и громкая пьеса Людмилы Разумовской продолжает до сего дня идти на сценах разных стран мира.*
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      _Людмила Разумовская_
      _ДОРОГАЯ ЕЛЕНА СЕРГЕЕВНА_
      __ *Действующие лица*
      _ЕЛЕНА СЕРГЕЕВНА_ - учительница
      _ВОЛОДЯ_
      _ПАША_ - ее ученики, выпускники десятого класса
      _ЛЯЛЯ_
      _ВИТЯ_
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      _ДЕЙСТВИЕ ПЕРВОЕ_
      _ Однокомнатная квартира учительницы Елены Сергеевны. Вечер. Звонок. Елена Сергеевна открывает дверь. На пороге стоят трое молодых людей и девушка с огромным букетом цветов. Это ее ученики. ___
      ____ _УЧЕНИКИ_. Здравствуйте, Елена Сергеевна! Добрый вечер, Елена Сергеевна!
      _ЕЛЕНА СЕРГЕЕВНА_. Господи... ребята... Вы? Извините, я не ждала.
      _ПАША_. Дорогая Елена Сергеевна!..
      _ВИТЯ_ *(перебивает)*. От имени и по поручению...
      _ПАША_. Спокойно. Я что, произвожу впечатление дебила?.. *(Проникновенно.)* Дорогая Елена Сергеевна! От имени и по поручению 10 "б" класса, стоящего на пороге неведомой, но, безусловно, прекрасной жизни, разрешите поздравить вас с наступающим днем рождения и пожелать вам, дорогая Елена Сергеевна, огромного, как этот весенний букет, счастья, творческих успехов в работе и крепкого, я бы даже сказал, богатырского здоровья, дабы воспитать еще не одно поколение таких же балбесов, как мы. Одним словом, многая лета! Ура!
      _ Все дружно поддержали возглас и зааплодировали. ___
      ____ *(Передавая букет.)* Разрешите в щечку, Елена Сергеевна.
      _ВИТЯ_. И мне, и мне, Елена Сергеевна! Поздравляем!
      _ЛЯЛЯ_. Поздравляем, Елена Сергеевна. Это тоже вам. *(Вручает пакет.)*
      _ВОЛОДЯ_. Елена Сергеевна, от всей души! И от всего сердца! *(Целует руку и передает маленький букетик фиалок.)*