2023-05
Narrator:陈小溪 King:梁炜彬 Milkman:李思成 Stone:黄钰涵
Water women:李林璟 陈思蓉 Yang girl:Director:刘雷蕾
Narrator: Once upon a time, there was a king who often thought.[ king comes on stage]
King: Nothing good can come to a nation whose people only complain and expect others to solve their problems.
Narrator: One day, he had an idea. Early one morning, the king disguised himself and went to a local village. He placed a large stone in the middle of the main street and hid gold coins under the stone. Then he hid behind a huge maple tree and watched.[King comes on stage with the stone, then hid behind the maple tree]
[the milkman comes on stage, he falls to the ground and curses]
Milkman: What fool put this stone here?[he picks himself up and kicks the stone angrily and leaves the stage]
[two water women come on stage, one of them tripped over the stone and limed away in tears. Li falls to the ground and Chen helps Li up]
Woman1 Li: OMG! Who put the stone? I will curse him![angry]
Woman2 Chen: It’s an unlucky day![Chen helps Li go off the stage]
[Everyone (except the king) comes on the stage to complain about the stone in the road and then comes off the stage]
Narrator: The king watched all day as many people complained about the stone, but he found nobody making an attempt to move it.
[the king comes back to the stage disappointedly ]
King: Is there no one in this village who feels any responsibility to keep their neighbors from harm?[the king goes off the stage]
Narrator: Just then, a young girl was coming along. She was very tired.
[the young girl comes to the stage]
Yang girl: Oh!This stone is a danger to anyone who comes down the street after dark. I’ll move it out of the way. [she makes a great effort to move the stone out of the road and the stone off the stage]
Yang girl: Oh! There is some gold! I must find the owner!
[King comes to the stage again]
Yang girl: Hi sir, does this gold belong to you? If not we surely must find the owner for he will certainly miss it.
King: My dear, the gold is mine, I put it in the road and move the stone over it. Now the gold is yours.
Yang girl: Why? It’s so valuable.
King: Because you are the only person who has learned the lesson I watched to teach my people.
[The end]