SHIBI’S SACRIFICE
Actors: Actors, hawk, dove, attendant holding scales
Props: Knife, 2 steel plates as scales, robes for Indra and Agni
Narrator: Once there was a great king named Shibi. He was very generous and kind. One day a hawk...
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Characters: Jesus, soldiers, Joseph of Arimathea, Mary Magdalene, other women, male disciples
Props: Sheet
Narrator: When Jesus was only 33 years old, he was tortured to death by the religious and political leaders who were opposed to him. They had...
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Actors: Nanak, his mother, his father Mehta Kalu, Rai Bullar, Hardyal pandit, relatives, cows, farmer, Hindu and Muslim ascetics
Props: strings for sacred thread, “trees”
Places: Home, temple for thread ceremony, forest, grazing fields
Narrator: When Nanak, who later became...
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Actors: Guru Nanak, his father Mehta Kalu, his mother, doctor, wife Sulakhni, sadhus, Rai Bullar
Props: shawls, food, tree
Places: Nanak’s house, bazaar, camp of sadhus, tree outside Nanak’s house
Narrator:
As Nanak was growing up, he spent much time...
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Actors: Bull, Brahmin, merchant, merchant’s servants
Narrator: There was a small bull calf. His owner gave him to a Brahmin as a gift.
Brahmin: I shall call you Nandi-Visala. That means “Great Joy.”
Narrator: The Brahmin loved that calf and...
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Characters: Wise goose, 2 young geese, king, 4 archers, king’s assistants
Narrator:
Once the Buddha was born as a goose living on a mountain with many other geese. One day he flew over the king’s palace.
King [to his assistants]:...
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The Rich Almsgiver
Characters: Silent Buddha, rich man, Mara, 3 servants, other people
Prop: offerings bowl, bench
Narrator: Near Varanasi, there was a monk meditating in the forest. He was called a Buddha because he was enlightened. He was called...
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Characters: Noah, his wife, their 3 sons, their wives, 2 of many 4-legged animals, 2 of many crawling animals, dove
Props: “olive leaf” on branch
Narrator: Long ago, God looked at the world and saw that people had become very...
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