Literature Script
Hi guys, Bryan here. I have written your scripts and given you your roles, so please go remember kay? This is not fixed yet by the way… If u could print this out it will be good on Monday.
Roles:
Bryan: Narrator
Celia: Lila
Bela: Daphne
Kamal: Erfan (Pretend to be girl can?)
Pinto: Clement
Mother: Agatha (Very easy de just eat marshmallows)
Shaman: Zarif
Cow: Nicholas (You say you want hor)
So this is the starting scene. Celia you pretend to be doing housework, Erfan and Daphne you pretend to be playing with the sand with Clement and Agatha you just sit down at the teachers table there. That’s the house by the way. So Daphne, Erfan and Pinto will be nearest to the door, Celia will be somewhere in the middle, Shaman and Cow will be outside the classroom.
Narrator: It was a fine day in the village of Thul, Lila, Bela and Kamal were waiting for a certain man to come. It was heard that this man could heal people with his strange rituals and they were waiting for him to come as Lila’s mother was sick…
(Shaman blows “trumpet” and bangs a “drum”, cow follows him. and shakes the “rattle”) (I have props for this, so don’t worry.)
Pinto gets scared and woofs. Kamal will get a hold of Pinto while Bela gets Lila to talk to Shaman.
Bela: Lila! The shaman is here!
Lila: Oh! (Runs to Shaman) Kamal, please stop Pinto; I wouldn’t want this to get ugly.
Kamal: Pinto, please behave yourself!
Shaman: Yes girl, what do you want?
Lila: My mother is ill and she has been ill for a long time. She has fever and is always lying in bed… Do you have any medicine for fever? Do you have any medicine for making her strong?
Shaman: Slowly, slowly daughter. What is the hurry? First I must have water for my cow, fresh well water. Next I must have fresh and tender grass for him. Then I will come can see your mother.
Lila: Bela, please take some water from the well and Kamal, please take some grass from the field.
Narrator: So that was how things had to be done, after the cow had been looked after, the Shaman too demanded for attention… (Daphne will go take a water bottle and Erfan will take a patch of yellow paper and give it to Nicholas. Celia just give a water bottle to Zarif too.)
(Shaman sits down)
Bela: Mother has been sick for a long time, since this year…
Kamal: Every day, she is growing weaker and weaker, she refuses to eat and is unable to get up at all…
Lila: And now she is hot with fever…
Shaman: (stands up) Okay then! Make a fire for me! I want a particular kind of wood and it has to be laid this way.
(Celia, Daphne and Erfan pretend to make a fire)
(Zarif, now take flowers in Nicholas’ shirt pocket and put it on the fire)
Narrator: After the Shaman has performed his ritual, he took some ash after the fire had been put out and is now ready to see Lila’s mother.
(Agatha: Close your eyes and pretend to sleep)
Shaman: Sister, I am here to heal you.
Agatha: (Open your eyes) what do you want?
Lila: Relax Mother, he is the Shaman and he can heal your fever.
Shaman: Eat sister, holy ash(marshmallows), purified ash. It will purify you within. It will drive away the demons that create the fever.
(Zarif goes away from the teachers table and Celia, Daphne and Erfan follow him.)
Shaman: Sweep up all the ash and bring it to me. (Puts marshmallow in Ziploc bags)
Shaman: Here, put this under your mother’s pillow, it will drive away the fever-demon. Go and put the others under your own pillows. It will also keep you away from demons, I have blessed it. Hari Om Hari Om Hari Om.
(Zarif blows trumpet again, Clement barks loudly)
Narrator: It seems that everything has been taken care of… But however, the Shaman did not do all that just for free.
Shaman: So what do you have to pay me, your stares? I cant feed my family with stares? Do you think I did this all for free?
Bela: But we don’t have anything…
Lila: Hold on for a second.
(Celia goes to teachers table and grabs the ring)
Lila: Here, this is all we have, please take it.
Kamal: But that’s… that’s Mother’s ring!
(Zarif grabs ring and marches off.)
Zarif: Let’s go cow.
(Nicholas moos and shakes the “rattle”) (Zarif blows horn and bangs drum)
Kamal: So what do we do with them, these packets of ash?
Lila: What can we do? We can’t do anything! We will just have to listen to him; there is no hospital or any doctor to help us. We only have the magic man, magic!
(Celia marches toward teachers table)
-End Skit-
So guys, how was it? I’m not so sure about the roles and the props too haiz… We don’t even have time to rehearse this so yeah… I don’t think some of you are up to your roles so I might consider switching them kay If you have any feedback please tag in the chat box thanks a lot!
