Deep Roots
A Christian drama script to download and use
£3.99
photo: OliBac www.flickr.com/photos/olibac/2765082640/
The parable of the sower is well known but in our urban world the idea of crops failing may have lost most of the impact that it once had. After all, to most of us, if a plant dies you just go and buty a new one (in a pot) from the supermarket!
This two-person script presents the parable from the plants’ point of view and so replaces the original social impact with “human interest”. It is easy to stage and could be ussed in a school assembly as well as in a church setting.
Here is an extract, you can download the full script using the cart buttons.
| (The two plants stand centre stage.) | |
| WEED | Hello! Do you come here often? (waits for answer, which doesn’t come) I said… |
| CORN | Yes yes, I heard you. I heard you now, I heard you yesterday, I heard you the day before, every morning the same question (impersonates in drippy way) “Do you come here often”. |
| WEED | I was just being polite… |
| CORN | Of course I don’t come here often! I’m a plant! You’re a plant! We’re rooted to the spot! I’ve been standing here next to you since you arrived! |
| WEED | Oh… so, do you have any interests? (Waits for an answer which doesn’t come) Mine’s bird spotting. I’m an ornithologist! |
| CORN | Oh do shut up! |
| (WEED looks offended. BOTH plants look away from the other. WEED looks around, then suddenly grabs hold of CORN and pushes/pulls him down into a crouch.) | |
| BOTH | Yaahhhhhh! |
| CORN | (pushing his head back up again) What was that for? |
| WEED | It’s that man! The one with the long choppy thing! He’s trying to chop our heads off! |
| CORN | The farmer? Oh, well – thanks. |
| WEED | That’s OK. So, do you have many brothers and sisters? |
| CORN | What? |
| WEED | Do you have many brothers and sisters? I’ve got loads! See that field over there? (points) All those bright colours? They’re my family! (shouts over to field, like at a football match) Come on you yellows! |
| CORN | (suddenly sad) Well, there aren’t many of my kind here. |
| WEED | Yeah? Why’s that then? How come you’re on your own? |
| CORN | Well, there were supposed to be thousands of us. See, the farmer came along here with a whole bag of seeds and sowed them all over the place. |
| WEED | You’re lucky, I don’t have anyone to give me a good start like that, I just fell here by chance! |
| CORN | Yes, I was lucky, but the rest of us weren’t. Some landed over there (points), on that path. They never stood a chance. |
| WEED | Why not? It looks like a nice spot for a picnic! |
© Rod Belt 2001 / 2010
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