DRAMA—FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT, YEAR B
Bible reference: Numbers 21:4-9
A CURE FOR SNAKEBITE
CHARACTERS: Four bushwalkers.
PROPS: Backpacks and bushwalking gear, rock (could be table covered in brown material), small and very big knife, first-aid book, mobile phone, tourniquet, Bible, optional snake.
(A group of four bushwalkers enter, sit down on a rock)
1: (Enthusiastically) Ah, nature! Don't you just love it?
2: (Looking around) The sights, the sounds, the smells... (Breathes deeply, looks appalled, then turns to 3) Was that you?
3: No!
4: And the wildlife...
3: (Pointing, behind 4) Ahhhhh! Snake!
ALL: Ahhhhh! (All panic)
4: (Jumping around holding butt) Ow, ow, ow! Help! Oh, bother! Drat! Suffering suckatash! I've been bitten by a snake! And it hurrrrrrrts....(Falls to ground)
1: (Panicking) Oh no! What do we do now?
2: (Rummaging around in enormous knapsack, pulling out all sorts of unlikely things) I've got my first-aid book in here somewhere... (Continues to rummage while others talk)
3: I heard you've got to suck the poison out. (Gets out a small knife) I've got a knife...
1: That's not a knife (Gets out really big knife). This is a knife!
3: (Takes big knife) Right, now where was he/she bitten?
1: I think he/she was bitten on the butt.
3: (Makes grimace of distaste) Got any other suggestions?
1: Has anybody got a mobile?
2: (Still rummaging) I know I've got one in here somewhere...
1: (Rolling eyes at audience) Has anybody else got a mobile.
3: What about a tourniquet?
2: (Still rummaging) I'm sure I've got one of those in here...
1: But where would we tie it?
3: (Hopefully) Around the waist? (4 moans and dies very dramatically)
1: Oh no!
3: I think he/she's dead!
2: (Excitedly holding up first-aid book, mobile phone, and tourniquet) I found them! I found my first-aid book, a mobile phone, and a tourniquet!
1: (Picking up a Bible which has fallen out of 2's backpack) Hey, what's this?
2: (Grabbing it and putting it back in backpack, embarrassed) It's a Bible.
3: (Shaking head sadly) Well, it's all too late, we may as well call a hearse. It's a pity you didn't have a miracle packed in there! (Exit 1, 2 and 3 carrying off 4)
© Reality! Drama Group 1999
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