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THE THREE MAGIC GIFTS
CHARACTERS:
NARRATOR
STEP-MOTHER
LITTLE BOY
OLD MAN – WISE MAN
JUDGE
JAILMAN
SCRIPT:
NARRATOR: Once upon a time there was a very handsome and intelligent little boy, who having lost his mother, he was taken cared by his step-mother.
STEP-MOTHER: I don`t like this boy. What can I do to get him leave this house?. I don`t feed him, I don`t treat him well, and he is still here.
NARRATOR: Meanwhile the boy was sitting at the table.
LITTLE BOY: This bread is so hard!. I have to go to the water fountain and soak it in water so that I can eat it.
NARRATOR: When he was at the water fountain soaking the bread an old man passed by.
OLD MAN: I am so hungry!. Can you please give me a piece of your bread, little boy?.
LITTLE BOY: Sure, grandfather!. It`s just that it is very hard, and I don`t have another one.
OLD MAN: I don`t mind.
NARRATOR: And the old man ate the bread.
OLD MAN: Thank you, son. You just did a good deed, and you deserve a reward. You should know that I am not a beggar, as it seems. I am a very powerful wizard. I will grant you three wishes.
NARRATOR: The little boy scratched his head and thought about what the man said.
LITTLE BOY: Well, I have been thinking and I want these three things: First, that everytime my step-mother looks at me, she must start laughing, and laughing, and laughing. Second, I want a ball, that whenever I throw it, it will not stop bouncing. And third, a magic flute, that can make people dance.
OLD MAN: Your wishes have been granted. Here you have your bouncing ball and your flute.
NARRATOR: Then the man disappeared, and the little boy went home. He went straight to see his stepmother.
LITTLE BOY: Step-mother I just finished eating my bread.
STEP-MOTHER: Very …… ha, ha, ha,ha, ha, ha, ha…. O my, I can´t stop laughing, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
NARRATOR: And the more she looked at the boy, the more she laughed.
LITTLE BOY: Why are you laughing stepmother?.
STEP-MOTHER: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
LITTLE BOY: What is so funny?.
STEP-MOTHER: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
LITTLE BOY: I see that you don`t want to talk. I will go to my room. See you tomorrow.
STEP-MOTHER: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
NARRATOR: And as soon as the boy left the room she stopped laughing.
STEP-MOTHER: What is wrong with me?. I couldn`t stop laughing.
NARRATOR: And every time the boy came to see his step-mother, she would start laughing. She couldn`t do anything. She couldn’t cook, take care of the house, eat, and she couldn`t even sleep. She could only laugh and laugh.
STEP-MOTHER: There must be someone who can help me! I can`t go on like this.
NARRATOR: She asked the doctors for help, but none could find a cure.
STEP-MOTHER: The doctors gave me medicines, but they don´t help. I wonder who can help me. I know, I will go to the hill, people say that a magician lives there. They say that he is very wise.
NARRATOR: So next day she went looking for the wise man.
WISE MAN: Mmm, you are under a spell.
STEP-MOTHER: I think it was him.
WISE MAN: Who`s him?.
STEP-MOTHER: My step-son.
WISE MAN: He put a a mysterious and magic spell on you. Let me talk to him.
STEP-MOTHER: Right now he’s at the water fountain.
WISE MAN: You better go to your house, and I´ll go look for him.
STEP-MOTHER: See you later, then.
NARRATOR: And the wise man went to the water fountain where he found the little boy soaking his bread.
WISE MAN: Hello, young boy.
LITTLE BOY: Who are you?.
WISE MAN: I am someone who is trying to help your step-mother.
LITTLE BOY: What`s wrong with her?.
WISE MAN: You must know that she is not feeling very well lately.
LITTLE BOY: I didn`t know she was sick.
WISE MAN: Well, she is. And I am sure that you know it.
LITTLE BOY: Excuse me?.
WISE MAN: Come on!. I am tired of wasting my time with you. Now tell me, right now, what did you do to her?.
LITTLE BOY: I didn`t do anything.
WISE MAN: Who did you talk to this last few days?. What have you been doing?. Tell me!.
LITTLE BOY: You ask too many questions, and I am also getting tired. Do you see this ball?.
WISE MAN: Yes, why?.
NARRATOR: Then the boy threw the ball and it started bouncing and bouncing.
LITTLE BOY: If you get the ball and make it stop, I will tell you what you want to know.
NARRATOR: The wise man chased the ball throughout the field until he got lost along with the ball. Since the wise man couldn`t get the information, the stepmother decided to take the little boy to the town judge.
JUDGE: What are the charges?.
STEP-MOTHER: He`s a wizard.
JUDGE: How do you know?.
STEP-MOTHER: Well, every time I look at him, I can`t stop laughing.
JUDGE: Mmmmm… I can see that, you can hardly talk. Anyway, I am in a hurry. Boy, you have to stay in jail.
LITTLE BOY: Very well, but before going to jail I would like to play my flute.
JUDGE: Play it as long as you want.
NARRATOR: As soon as the little boy starting playing the flute, his step-mother, the jailmen, the judge, and everybody at the court started dancing and jumping as if they had a kind of spring attached to their feet.
STEP-MOTHER: I an exhausted!.
JUDGE: I can´t go on like this!.
JAILMAN: Please have mercy, mercy!.
LITTLE BOY: Judge, if you promise me that I will be free and that you will keep me away from my step-mother, I will stop playing the flute.
JUDGE: I promise!. I promise!.
NARRATOR: The boy stopped playing the flute, and suddenly everybody stopped dancing.
JUDGE: As for your step-mother, she will have to move to the farthest town away from you, and she will never return to this town.
LITTLE BOY: Oh, thank you!.
NARRATOR: And the little boy lived happily and in peace, and everybody considered him a powerful and wise person.
THE END
Author: European Folktale
Adapted by: K I D S I N C O
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