You_Are_Special script.docx



You Are SpecialChildren’s story by Max LucadoAdapted to a play by Leilani HarlingCharacters:Narrator: The narrator will set the scene and guide through Punchinello’s journey, then will close the end of the play with Scripture.Punchinello: A Wemmick who needs love and acceptance, he is put down by his fellow Wemmicks and feels like he is not special, not unique. Lucia: A Wemmick who doesn’t care what the rest of the village (society) feels about her. She only cares what Eli (The woodcarver feels about her) thus she is not faded by the villages judgments.Eli: The maker, he is the wood carver who created all of the Wemmicks. He is the God figure/Father figure.Wemmicks: Villagers made of wood who go around giving stars and dots to other Wemmicks depending on talents or physical appearances.Scene 1: The Village(The play begins with the lights dim, and the voice of the narrator. After narrator delivers the first line the lights go up upon village set and characters begin moving acting out everyday village life as the narrator walks through as an omniscient character. Punchinello walks in with a look of sadness on his face and the narrator takes a back seat and watches the rest of the scene.)Narrator: “A long, long time ago, when I was a little girl, my father read to me this story of wemmicks who lived in corrupt world. The Wemmicks were small wooden people. Each of the wooden people was carved by a woodworker named Eli. His workshop sat on a hill overlooking their village. Every Wemmick was different. Some had big noses, others had large eyes. Some were tall and others were short. Some wore hats, others wore coats. But all were made by the same carver and all lived in the village. And all day, every day, the Wemmicks did the same thing: They gave each other stickers. Each Wemmick had a box of golden star stickers and a box of gray dot stickers. Up and down the streets all over the city, people could be seen sticking stars or dots on one another. The pretty ones, those with smooth wood and fine paint, always got stars. But if the wood was rough or the paint chipped, the Wemmicks gave dots. The talented ones got stars, too. Some could lift big sticks high above their heads or jump over tall boxes. Still others knew big words or could sing very pretty songs. Everyone gave them stars. Some Wemmicks had stars all over them! Every time they got a star it made them feel so good that they did something else and got another star. Others, though, could do little. They got dots. Punchinello was one of these. He tried to jump high like the others, but he always fell. And when he fell, the others would gather around and give him dots. Sometimes when he fell, it would scar his wood, so the people would give him more dots. He would try to explain why he fell and say something silly, and the Wemmicks would give him more dots. After a while he had so many dots that he didn't want to go outside. He was afraid he would do something dumb such as forget his hat or step in the water, and then people would give him another dot. In fact, he had so many gray dots that some people would come up and give him one without reason.” Wemmick #1: "He deserves lots of dots."Wemmick #2: “There’s nothing special about you.”Wemmick #3: "He's not a good wooden person." Narrator: “The wooden people would agree with one another. After a while Punchinello believed them.” Scene 2: Punchinello’s House/Room(Scene changes to Punchinello’s Home/Room, onstage is a a bed (w/headboard), low shelf, window, door and porch (optional) and Punchinello sitting on his bed looking out the window lights dim at random in order to convey shadows.)Punchinello: "I'm not a good Wemmick,….I don’t deserves stars…Why? Why was I made like this? Why couldn’t I be like the others? Be able to jump high…able to run fast…be as smart as everyone else...paint good or be outgoing…why can’t I be loved and revered by everybody else…I want to be admired, why did the maker make me this way?!? (Punchinello starts to cry) Why don’t they love me?...Why can’t I be special?” (Punchinello sings song and the lights go dim.)Scene 3: The Village(Lights come up and scene opens back in the village when lucia enters and starts interacting with the other Wemmicks, Punchinello walks through and notices her and her lack of stickers.)Narrator: “The few times he went outside, he hung around other Wemmicks who had a lot of dots. He felt better around them. One day he met a Wemmick who was unlike any he'd ever met. She had no dots or stars. She was just wooden. Her name was Lucia. It wasn't that people didn't try to give her stickers; it's just that the stickers didn't stick. Some admired Lucia for having no dots, so they would run up and give her a star. But it would fall off. Some would look down on her for having no stars, so they would give her a dot. But it wouldn't stay either.” Punchinello: “That's the way I want to be.” “I don't want anyone's marks.”Narrator: So he asked the stickerless Wemmick how she did it. (Punchinello runs up to her) Punchinello: Excuse me!Lucia: Hello (she says this in a pleasant disposition)Punchinello: Please forgive me, but why don’t you have any…stars or…dots-I mean why don’t they stick um stay on? How do you do it-uh get rid of them? (He says this in a kind of nervous voice)Lucia: "It's easy, everyday I go see Eli." Punchinello: "Eli?" Lucia: "Yes, Eli. The woodcarver. I sit in the workshop with him." Punchinello: "Why?" Lucia: "Why don't you find out for yourself? (she smiles) Go up the hill. He's there." (Punchinello looks up the “hill” up the seats of the audience up at the light booth. Lucia turns and skips away without another word, leaving Punchinello speechless. He looks at the hill then back at her then back at the hill then turns and yells)Punchinello: "But he won't want to see me!" (Punchinello walks home, on his way he watches the wooden people as they scurried around giving each other stars and dots. Punchinello: "It's not right, (he shakes his head) maybe I should go see the woodcarver. No, he wouldn’t want to talk to a Wemmick like me…but maybe-nah..(he paces back and forth for a while…then all of a sudden this door opening sound effect comes on in sync with the spot light moving from the side of the red to the center, illuminating Punchinello) Ok.” (He starts up the “Hill” up the right side of the audience into the light booth. Light shuts off. Music comes on.)Scene 4: The Woodcarvers Shop(Scene opens with (Everything extremely large) Work table, work supplies (paint, paint brushes, rulers, pencil, scissors, pain cup, paper, stool, window. Punchinello’s eyes widen at the size of everything. The stool is as tall as he is. The hammer is as long as his arm. He starts to feel out of place and becomes afraid.)Punchinello: "I'm not staying here!" (Punchinello turns to leave, and voice over comes on)Eli: "Punchinello?" (Punchinello stops) "Punchinello! How good to see you. Come and let me have a look at you." (Punchinello slowly turns around and looks at left side of the audience up and down to show the size different between him and the woodcarver, in the sheet or “wall” behind the shadow of the man is projected it.) Punchinello: "You know my name?" (He says this in a small voice in awe of the man.)Eli:"Of course I do. I made you." (Eli’s shadow stoops down to inspect the gray circles) "Hmm,"(Eli inspects the gray circles.) "Looks like you've been given some bad marks." Punchinello:"I didn't mean to, Eli. I really tried hard." Eli: "Oh, you don't have to defend yourself to me, child. I don't care what the other Wemmicks think." Punchinello:"You don't?" Eli: “No, and you shouldn't either. Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you. What they think doesn't matter, Punchinello. All that matters is what I think. And I think you are pretty special." Punchinello: (laughs) "Me, special? Why? I can't walk fast. I can't jump. My paint is peeling. Why do I matter to you?" Eli: (Long silence, Punchinello looks at him then bows in shame, the shadow touches Punchinellos shoulder and then Punchinello raises his head) "Because you're mine. That's why you matter to me." (Punchinello is speechless, tears come to his eyes and he begins to look at the maker feeling loved and happy) "For I created your inmost being;?I made you from the works of my hands. Don’t you know that you are fearfully and wonderfully made;?I knew your frame from the beginning, it was not hidden from me when I made you?in the secret place,?when you were woven together?in the depths of the earth. [adapted from Psalm 139:13-15] (Pause) Every day I've been hoping you'd come," Punchinello:"I came because I met someone who had no marks." Eli:"I know. She told me about you." Punchinello:"Why don't the stickers stay on her?" Eli: "Because she has decided that what I think is more important than what they think. The stickers only stick if you let them." Punchinello: (Punchinello surprised)"What?" Eli:"The stickers only stick if they matter to you. The more you trust my love, the less you care about the stickers." Punchinello:"I'm not sure I understand." Eli:"You will, but it will take time. You've got a lot of marks. For now, just come to see me every day and let me remind you how much I care." (Punchinello turns to walk out the door then turns around) "Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes." Punchinello: (whispers to himself)"I think he really means it." (Attached to fishing line, a dot falls to the ground) “Thank you”Narrator: “May all your dots fall silently to the ground, for if given by man, they matter only to other men. When given the choice, pass out stars, drop the dots in the trash.”(Pause) “?Do not conform?to the pattern of this world,?but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.?Then you will be able to test and approve what the makers will is—his good, pleasing?and perfect will. For by the grace given me?I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith the maker has distributed to each of you.?For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,??so in the redeemer we, though many, form one body,?and each member belongs to all the others.??We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.?“ [Taken from Romans 12:2-6b] (Pause, start to turn away and then turn back) “And remember…you ARE special.”(Lights off and Music starts: “Never Gone” by Colton Dixon)The EndSets:Village-shops, stairs, fountain, mountain range in background.Punchinello’s House (Room)-bed (w/headboard), low shelf, window, porch.Eli’s Workshop-(Everything extremely large) Work table, work supplies (paint, paint brushes, rulers, pencil, scissors, pain cup, paper, stool, window.) Sheet or something to project on, for the shadow effect. ................
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