DIE DROOMDIEF!

Die Droom Dief is a story about a young girl Sussie whose dream is stolen during the night.

The play starts with a group of friends playing clapping songs and skipping-rope when a distraught Sussie joins them. Initially she doesn’t want to tell them what is wrong because she knows that they won’t believe her and eventually when she does they laugh and tease her saying that she is being silly and that dreams cannot be stolen.

After a while her best friend Meisie, realizes that she is serious and suggests that they search for the thief together but Sussie is scared and reasons that even if her dream was stolen at least she was not harmed and she goes home to check whether she might have just misplaced the dream. Meisie is not willing to give up so easily though and she reminds their friends how Sussie has always helped them and she eventually manages to convince them that their friend needs their help.

They all go to Sussie together and after they apologise for teasing her they start making plans about how to go about finding out who the thief could be, but once again Sussie tells them that she is not interested in catching the thief because she just wants her dream back.

Eventually they devise a plan and set off to tell the police, but the policeman just laughs at them and tells them not to waste his time; they then go to the pastor who tells Sussie that it is all in her imagination because dreams cannot be stolen and that she should pray; they go to a teacher who tells them that they should be studying and to wasting their time hunting for lost dreams; the go to the local gossip, the shop owner, the owner of the tavern, but no-one is of any help and each one send them off with another bit of bad advice.

Eventually they are despondent when they meet up with the local gardener who tells them that he overheard someone sitting in the bush and speaking about some or other stolen item which he was trying to sell.

They go looking for the bush but can’t find it and they just as they are about to give up, when they hear a voice coming their way. They quickly hide and when the thief appears they surround the little girl who breaks down and confesses. She is remorseful though and tells Sussie that she only took it because she’s never had a dream of her own. She wants to give it back and Sussie tells her that she can keep it, but the little girl says that it’s okay because now that she knows what dreams are she’s going to find one for herself.