Characters:
Michael
Mother
Father
SCRIPT:
Scene I
(At three o’clock in the morning. Michael is sleeping in his room. He wakes up and goes to his parent’s bedroom. He wakes up his mother)
Michael: Mom! Mom! There’s a bat in my bedroom!
Mother: Oh, Michael… not again… it’s three o’clock in the morning… why don’t you go to your room and try to sleep?
Michael: Mom… I’m telling you the truth.
Mother: The other night you told me that you saw a dragon in the bathroom…at two o’clock in the morning!
Michael: This time you have to believe me.
Father: Michael go back to bed, you have school tomorrow!
Michael: Good night, mom… Good night dad.
Mother and Father: Good night, Michael.
(Michael leaves)
Scene II
(Next morning. Michael and his mother are in the dining room having breakfast. His father enters the room, and he looks at a broken cup in the floor)
Father: Who broke my favorite gold cup?
Mother: Oh, Michael… what have you done!
(Michael stands up and looks at the cup in the floor)
Michael: I didn’t do it.
Mother: I didn’t break it, either.
Michael: Mom, last night after I left your bedroom I came to drink some water, then the table started shaking… I think it was an earthquake! All the cups in the table started to move, and dad’s cup fell and broke. I saw it with my own eyes!
Father: Michael!
Mother: You’re lying… That’s why all the people in town call you Michael Liar.
Father: Not even you believe your own lies.
Mother: I hope you get itchy every time you lie.
Michael: I never lie!
(Michael scratches his head, his arms, his hands, his legs, and his feet)
Michael: Mom! It was me who broke the cup!
(The itching stops. Michael stops scratching)
Father: It’s easy to tell the truth, right?
Michael: Yes, dad… I’m sorry.
Mother: Remember, no more lies… or you will get itchy.
Michael: No! No! I promise… no more lies. I learned my lesson.
Father: Good.. I’m hungry… and breakfast looks delicious!
(Michael and his parents sit at the table and start eating)
The End
Author: Folktale from Switzerland
Adapted by K I D S I N C O
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