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THE ANGEL OF DEATH AND THE KING

CHARACTERS:

 KING

PEASANT MAN

PEASANT WOMAN

SOLDIER

ANGEL OF DEATH

SCRIPT:

ACT 1

(The King is sitting on his throne.  The Peasant Man and the Peasant Woman are standing before the King. The Soldier is standing beside the King) 

PEASANT MAN:  Please forgive me, your majesty.  It is true that I stole some bread, but I did it for my family.  

PEASANT WOMAN:  (crying)  We haven’t eaten in days.  My children cry day and night.

KING:  I don’t care!.  You stole from me and you should pay for that.  

PEASANT MAN:  Your majesty, I am so sick that I’m unable to work.  The pain is unbearable!. 

KING:  (he stands and tells the soldier)  Take them away, and keep them locked for three months.

PEASANT WOMAN: No, please I’m begging you!.  Who will take care of my children?.

KING:  I don’t want to listen to you anymore. Get out of here!.

PEASANT WOMAN:  (crying)  You are so cruel.  Have mercy of us!.

(The Soldier, the Peasant Man and the Peasant Woman  leave the stage)

KING:  I don’t know what compassion is. (he sits.  A man in ragged clothes but with a  terrifying face enters the stage and stands before the King.  The King stands) Who are you?. 

ANGEL OF DEATH: I am the destroyer of happiness and the divider of friends.

KING:   Who let you in?.

ANGEL OF DEATH:  I don’t need anybody’s permission to come into your palace.

KING:  I’ll call my soldiers and they will throw you out of here!.  You’re so disrespectful!. You must be a thief like the ones I just sent to jail before you came in.

ANGEL OF DEATH:  I am not scared of you or anybody else, and I don’t feel threatened by your soldiers.  And you’re right, I am disrespectful because I don’t respect tyrants.  You can not escape from me!. 

KING: (scared)  Are you the Angel of Death?!.

ANGEL OF DEATH: Yes, I am.

KING:  Please, I beg you, let me live one more day.  I hurt a lot of people and I must ask for their forgiveness.  I need time to give back everything I stole from the poor.  I don’t want to  die without repenting and confessing my sins and be judged by the Lord and suffer punishment, and shame.

ANGEL OF DEATH:  That’s impossible!.  How can I grant you one more day if the days of your life are counted and your breaths numbered. 

KING:  Then give me an hour!.

ANGEL OF DEATH:  The hour was in the account, and has passed while you regret your actions.  It has finished along with your breaths…you only have one left.

KING:  Who will be with me, when I am taken to my grave?.

ANGEL OF DEATH:  Only your good deeds.

KING:  I didn’t do good deeds!.

ANGEL OF DEATH: Then you will be destroyed in a lake of fire created by the Almighty.

KING:  I’m begging you, don’t take me with you.  Have mercy of me!.

ANGEL OF DEATH:  (raises his right arm)  Now you want mercy after all you have done?.   After you sent to jail those poor people?.   (The King falls to the floor and dies) I don’t know what compassion is.

THE END

AUTHOR:  ANONYMOUS

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