THE STORY: Ostensibly concerned with a family innocently debating which tree to chop down for Christmas, the play becomes a parable both of man’s mindless destruction of his environment and of his callousness towards other living things as the “trees” cry out in anguish when the axes strike again and again, severing the tenuous thread, that sustains their lives—and perhaps ours as well.
Subtitled
A Play for Trees and People, this haunting and imaginative short play was first presented as part of a program on pollution and conservation entitled
Foul!.
Included in the collection
Trees and Leader.
