PEACE CHILD – ALPHA OMEGA SCRIPT
PEACE CHILD – ALPHA OMEGA
– A JOURNEY TO FAITH –
Setting: Chorus on risers behind the Orchestra; bare stage for the actors in front of the Orchestra; Storyteller Stage Left; Back projection screen if wished;
General Lighting Principles: • • • •
Use only Follow Spots – and general area illumination of the Choir when they are singing; When any actor is singing, both follow-spots are on them; When the Storyteller is speaking, she has both follow-spots on her When Chorus is singing on their own, the Follow-spots swing back to highlight them
Scene ONE - Opening:
SCRIPT
Lighting / Action: Black Out! The Story-teller enters carrying a candle; she reaches her lectern – the follow spot comes up on her face, picking up on the light created by the candle. She then blows it out, and the Spot light grows to illuminate her head and shoulders She moves to her lectern and opens her Story Book. She starts softly – her voice building a crescendo over the narration. Music: low build on the organ – rippling louder, louder – then subsides. Storyteller: [Confidentially – gently, to the audience. Telling them a story – the oldest story in the world] In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth And the earth was without form and void; And darkness was upon the face of the deep And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters And God said, Let there be light, and there was light And God saw the light that it was good, – and divided the light from the darkness And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night And the evening and the morning were the first day Out of darkness came light Out of light came life. 1