The Happy Prince is built with gold from head to foot. His eyes are two precious sapphires and there is a big red ruby on his sword hilt.

A sad, tired-looking man immediately enters the stage from the right. He limps down with an unhappy expression. He stops before the statue of the Happy Prince and looks unhappily for three seconds. He starts limping towards the left wing exit, muttering loudly to himself: “At least, there’s one truly happy man in this town. That is something!”

Immediately from the left wing emerges a young mother dragging her little boy by the hand. The boy is crying. Mother is trying to stop the boy from crying. They reach the statue of the Happy Prince. Mother speaks while walking: “I can’t understand why you keep crying! Why can’t you be happy? The Happy Prince never cries for new things.”

Elara lived in a small cottage at the edge of a quiet village. Every night, she would sit by her window and watch the stars. She loved the sky. She often wondered where the stars went during the day. “Perhaps they are like lost children,” she thought, “and the sun is their mother looking for them.” One night, a bright star seemed to fall from the sky. It landed in the forest nearby. Elara, being a brave and curious girl, decided to find it. She took a lantern and walked into the dark woods, her heart beating with a mix of fear and excitement. She searched for hours but found nothing. Disappointed, she returned home, only to see the brightest star of all twinkling right above her cottage, as if it was winking at her.