iSociety Part 2 iFamily

iSociety Part 2 iFamily © Theme: This four part comedy series indicates our obsession to focus on “my” wants, needs, wi...

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iSociety Part 2 iFamily © Theme:

This four part comedy series indicates our obsession to focus on “my” wants, needs, wishes, and “I want it my way” selfishness, “I can make the world in my image” thinking. Having a world in our image is limiting, flawed and self-serving; denying God the power to work in our lives; negating our need for a Savior. Drama is a play on words as „high society‟negative adjectives that begin with “i”: The theme song for the Adaams Family TV show has been adapted into this drama. Midi clips of this music (which we believe to be royalty-free) can be found at many locations on the internet including: http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/game/643theme.mid Sheet music (again believed to be royalty-free, can be found at: http://jeanies_home_studio.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/adamsfamily.pdf Segment 2 the iFamily Are we living together avoiding the hassles of interacting? We are all living under the same roof but we are as far apart as the stars? Everyone has what they need in their own little space in the house. We are so engaged with our own activities and our own entertainments that separation happens until there is no connection anymore. Selfishness is one of the most basic causes of problems between people everywhere. Everybody is out for themselves.

Bible Reference: Cast:

James 4:1-4

4 iMan (father) iLady (wife) iBoy (son) iGirl (daughter)

Set, lighting, costumes:

standard

Sound:

music for song, sound of someone knocking

Props:

small mirror for each actor, roll of duct tape

Special Instructions: all actors are “high society” and looking down their noses at others. I see speech as being like Thurston Howell of the old Gilligans Island TV show. I suggest that the song be sung by offstage or recorded voices and have the actors mime the emotions of the words, however it is possible to have the actors sing the song. All words beginning with “i” and followed by a capitalized letter will be pronounced “I” as in iMan pronounced “I man”. In the song, the final line in each verse “The iFirst iFamily” is meant to not quite fit in to the song lyrics. Time:

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Script: Segment 2 – the iFamily iSociety Part 2 iFamily © ©Copyright DramaShare® 2008

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iFamily are sitting sitting at various parts of the stage reading, snoozing, etc. iBoy walks within a few feet of iGirl who reacts iGirl:

Will you puhleasseee allow me my iSpace, iBoy.

iBoy:

Oh iGirl I never came anywhere near your precious iSpace!

iLady:

iChildren, play nicely and don‟t make so much iNoise! You know how my iEars bleed when I have to deal with iNoise!

iMan:

Let us all try to live in iHarmony.

iGirl:

iHarmony with a iDiot for an iBrother? I do not iThink so!

iMan:

I fully realize how difficult it may be for the iFamily to iExist together in close iQuarters, trying to iVoid iNteracting with each iOther. I have an iDea.

iLady, very impressed: Oh iChildren, your iFather has an iDea! iMan:

Well, iLady, iThank you, I am rather iProud of my iDea actually.

iGirl, proudly: Oh iMan, tell me your iDea . .. (looks menacingly at iBoy), too bad iBoy couldn‟t have an iDea some iTime, for iNstance like leaving our iHouse twice and coming back once! iBoy, mad:

Oh iYeah?

iGirl, mad:

iYeah!

iLady, firmly: iChildren, I have iWarned you! My very sensitive iEars! . . Now then iMan, tell us about your iDea to create iHarmony in our iHome. iMan, proudly:Well, my iLady, iBoy, iGirl, all of you listen carefully . . iGirl, pouting: Why is it when iPeople are addressing the iGroup of us my iName is always last? iMan, confused: I am afraid I don‟t iFollow you iGirl. iGirl:

Welllll . . . when you asked all of us to listen carefully, why didn‟t you say, “”Well my iGirl, iBoy, iLady, listen carefully .” . . .

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iLady, hurt:

How is it fair that my iName be left until last? . . I am iHurt. (iLady has a tantrum, stamping feet and screaming) I iHate, I iHate it, I iHate it!

iBoy:

Look, iLady is having an iTantrum. iLady must be very iHurt.

iMan:

I feel so iBad for iLady. . . . (thinks) . . Although not as iBad as if it happened to me of course. (to iLady) Now then, here is an iHug, an iKiss . .. (holds out arms, puckers lips in direction of iLady but never comes close) Now isn‟t that iBetter?

iLady:

A little perhaps iMan. . . Now on with your iDea. . .

iMan, proudly:Well . . . (holds up roll of duct tape) . . This will ensure each of us our iSpace . . . iBoy, confused: A roll of tape can give us iSpace? iMan:

Not just any tape, it‟s my iDuct tape! . . See, here‟s how it iWorks! We will start with iGirl‟s iSpace.

iMan makes a box around where iGirl is standing iGirl, excited: Oh iThank you, iMan, now I have my very own iSpace! . .(looks menacingly at iBoy) . . . Where iBoy can‟t iNtrude! iBoy:

Oh iGirl, put an iSock in it!

iLady, firmly: One last iWarning, my iEars . . .! iGirl, examining her space: Hey one iMinute here! How do I get to the iBathroom? iBoy, laughing: iGirl has to walk through my iSpace! . . And no iWay I will let her! iGirl, crying: iMomma, no iFair! How am I to wash my iHair, iPamper my beautiful iSkin? iLady, screaming: iBoy, let your iSister use your iSpace to get to the iBathroom! iBoy:

But iMom . . . .

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iLady, screaming louder: I said . . . let your iSister use your iSpace! iMan, thinks: This iPlan for creating iSpace isn‟t iWorking . . iGirl:

This girl in my iClass at iSchool said her family have a guidebook for iHarmony.

iLady:

We should perhaps iCheck that out, what is the name of the guidebook?

iGirl:

The Bible. . . . This girl is a Christian.

iMan, iLady & iBoy, together: Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! iLady:

iGuess there‟s no iWay to live in iHarmony!

all stand around sad theme music plays, actors react. After song is over actors leave stage They‟re iNward and iNdulgent iMpersonal, iGnorant Its iFirst and iDore it The iFirst iFamily They live in iSolation iNdependent iNsulation iFirst is what they‟re chasin‟ The iFirst iFamily Group hug! (all hug, kiss another person without ever coming close to touching the other person, showing disdain for the other person. Then each actor with big smile hugs him/herself, kisses own fingertips, pat, pat the kisses on own cheeks. Each actor picks up mirror and admires his/herself) They‟re iMmature, iMoral iWorship and iQuarrel I I do, iDore all The iFirst iFamily. (each actor picks up mirror and admires his/herself) actors leave stage

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