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Worship Aid
Reader’s Theater "Can Anybody Really Hear Me?" by Arley K. Fadness.
Synopsis: Mary Delight is a young lady representing Generation X
who is bewildered about her future.
Mary goes to trusted
individuals for a caring ear but is not listened to and gets
frustrated.
Finally she blurts out her dilemma to a little child,
and the child seems to hear and care.
This chancel drama is a setup for preaching to the theme of "The
Need To Be Listened To And Heard."
Can Anybody Really Hear Me?
Text: Luke 8:8b
Theme: The Need To Be Listened To And Heard
Characters: Narrator
Mary Delight
Pastor Lovet, wearing clerical collar
Sam, Mary's employer at the Deli, wearing apron
Mr.
Harpie, band teacher
Scooter, little child
Tone: Thoughtful, humorous
Setting~/Props: All characters on stage are frozen until spoken
to.
When each character finishes his dialogue with Mary, he or
she then resumes the frozen position.
Approximate time: 5-6 minutes
Narrator: Once upon a time there was this young lady, Mary
Delight, who came to that juncture in her road of life when she
wondered, "Should she, Mary Delight, marry Harry, or should she
seek knowledge and go to college, or might she at nineteen pierce
her ears and work for Sears?"
Mary was in that common quandary so many who are called
Generation X find themselves in.
You know what a quandary is?
A
quandary is a puzzling predicament requiring a decision and a
focus.
Let's ponder with Mary Delight and see how it is going.
Mary D: (Dressed in a brightly flowered outfit, Mary sings, hums,
whistles a happy, carefree song.
She appears on stage with high
energy, doing cartwheels, or rollerblading, or some youthful,
active action.
She picks a flower and gives it to a person in the
audience, flits here and there, and then suddenly sits down and
becomes pensive, and ponders) It's been a blast.
Cool.
That's for
sure.
(Thoughtfully) But now I'm in a real bind.
Tomorrow is my
twentieth birthday -- I'm getting old!
(Laughs) Not really old
old.
(Seriously) But I do need to make up my mind.
Should I marry Harry?
He says he loves me and I love him,
too, but ...
Or should I get some more knowledge and go to college?
Folks
want me to.
They said they'd help me anyway they could.
Dollars
for scholars.
Or should I take that job at Sears?
You know it would be
interesting.
Oh, what shall I do?
(Wrings her hands, twirls her
curls)
I know, I'll talk to our new pastor -- The Rev. Dr. Emmet J.
Lovet.
(To Pastor Lovet) Hi, Pastor Lovet.
Pastor Lovet: Hello, Mary.
Mary D: Pastor, I know you haven't been at our parish very long,
but I do have a personal question to ask you ...
Pastor Lovet: Personal?
Mary D: (Laughs) Personal about me, not you!
Pastor Lovet: Oh.
Go ahead.
Mary D: I'll be twenty tomorrow.
Pastor Lovet: So?
Mary D: (Set back by his abrupt, insensitive demeanor) Well, I
must make some decisions for my future.
Pastor Lovet: Fine.
Go on.
I'm listening.
(Reads a book)
Mary D: What I mean is, should I marry Harry, or go to college
and get some knowledge, or pierce my ears and work for Sears?
Pastor Lovet: (In stained-glass voice, insensitively) That's a
real dilemma, Mary.
When I was your age I already knew what I
planned to do.
Why, when I was twelve years old, I managed the
neighborhood paper route, went on to college, majored in English
and Hebrew, all the while working, working my way through
college, and then seminary ...
And furthermore ...
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