THE SHEPHERD'S
STORY
By Guy Donegan-Cross
Suitable
for Whole School
Aim
To celebrate the Christmas
message in a humorous way.
Preparation and materials
- Shepherd's outfit (dressing gown and tea towel!), animal figurine,
simple wooden cross, doll in baby clothes.
- This is simply a monologue which you can perform with as much gusto as
you can muster. You don't need to stick to the script - the props can act as
your guide.
Assembly
(Enter dressed as a shepherd,
with your bag over your shoulder.)
You'll never guess where I've
just come from. A bloke like me; who'd have thought it? A simple, smelly
shepherd! I mean, I have just seen the most amazing thing you could ever hope
to see. And what's more, I've got some things in here to prove it (point to
bag).
It all began the other night. Some of us were all sitting
round minding our sheep and washing our socks, when suddenly there was this
enormous light in the sky and the sound of singing like you've never heard
before. We all looked up with our mouths open like this (open mouth).
Suddenly, one of the angels who was there said, 'Oi, you!' At least I
think it was something like that but I can't quite remember, we were just
sitting down with our mouths open. 'Get down to Bethlehem,' he said. 'The king
of the world is about to be born and he wants you to go and see him.'
'All right,' I said. 'But who's going to look after the sheep?'
'Don't worry about that,' said the angel. 'You just get down to
Bethlehem and we'll mind your sheep - we're quite good at that.'
So we
ran down to Bethlehem, and we found him. It was the most amazing night of my
life. The king of the world - a baby! When he saw me, the baby looked at me and
laughed - at least I think it was laughing, I'm not very good with baby sounds.
His mother Mary was there and she was such a sweetie. In fact, after I had been
there a while I asked if I could take a few things just to remind myself of
what I had seen. You know, souvenirs and things like that. And she said, 'No
problem.'
Would you like to see them? Okay. Well, the first thing I've
got is this little cow (take out animal). Okay, I know it's a bit small
but I couldn't bring you the real thing, could I? Do you know what this reminds
me of? Well, the place they were in was a stable, and it was smelly. I mean
soooo smelly. You might expect a king to be born in a palace, but this one was
born in straw and in the most cramped little place. But it was still wonderful,
and in a funny kind of way it seemed right.
I'll show you the next
thing, then. I asked Mary if I could take a bit of wood from the stable, just
to remind me of the place. She said, 'Fine.' But when I picked this up, she got
the strangest look on her face (bring out the cross). I mean, I don't
know what all the fuss was about - it's only two bits of wood.
But the
best thing I took I've saved till last. You see, we all felt that this was so
special, that the baby was a gift. So I thought I had better do something about
that (take the doll out of the bag). So I've got him here. I figured if
he was a gift then I had better take him with me.
Why are you laughing?
I haven't done anything wrong have I? But … Oh, you mean, he's a gift for
everyone?
Silly me!
Oh well, I suppose I'd better go and take
him back. They'll be wondering where he is. Goodbye, then.
(Walk
off, cuddling and talking to doll.)
Time for
reflection
Shepherds watched their flocks.
Angels - shepherds shocked!
New-born boy - shepherds joy.
New-born
king - angels sing.
Christmas story - glory, glory.
Song
'Rise up, shepherd' (Come and
Praise, 116)
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