After the queen is crowned by seven heavenly white doves, she announces that in the year before, each creature must adopt a plant or small animal to care for.
Mother earth smiles at her and winks in admiration. All creatures carry on happy tunes and dance cheerfully.
The poison ivy plant hides behind the bushes and watches them with anger or resentment perhaps. She knows children are warned against her. She sits there and plots to scatter her green and sparkly poison bits from her stems and leaves onto the earth. She does so, as fast as she can manage.
The party ends and everyone goes to a long and dark sleep under the moon. A tiny fairy comes fluttering about and shaking her magic wand on all the green and sparkly poison bits on the ground until the green blossoms into tiny sprouts. The next morning the tiny sprouts had turned into wonderful delicate green and sparkly flowers. Small children pop out of each green sprout and wave in the wind. It's a new beginning.
Music is an important part of this play, because there's no dialogue between characters. The characters communicate with one another and with the audience through music, movement, and expressions.
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