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MICHAEL LIAR

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

(Michael and his mother are  in the dining room having breakfast.  His father enters, and he looks at a broken cup in the  floor)

FATHER: Who broke my favorite gold cup?.

MOTHER:  (to Michael) What have you done!.

(Michael stands 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!. (He scratches his head, his arms, his hands, his legs, and his feet) Mom…it was me who broke the cup. (The itching stops, and he 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: I promise!.   No more lies.  I learned my lesson.

FATHER: Good!.  I’m hungry and breakfast looks delicious!.

(Michael, Mother, and Father 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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