King, Dragon, Princess, Frankie, Frankie’s mom, villagers (3), sheep (2), George
Little is known about the historical St George. We know that he was real, but beyond that all we have is legends about him. It is likely that George was a real, roman soldier, whose courage when he was martyred inspired a rebellion that ended Roman persecution of Christians. Because of this, he was portrayed in art as defeating a dragon- and eventually legends grew up about this incident. So even though the following story is not true, we will tell it anyway!
(Enter Dragon)
There once was a village in Syria, where a dragon lived. The dragon was mean, and could kill you with his extremely bad breath. The dragon would breath on the audience, and they would die agonizing deaths.
(Enter the villagers, sheep)
The villagers were terrified of the dragon! So every week they would kill two sheep, and give them to the dragon, so that he would stay away from their city.
One day they ran out of sheep. “What will we do?” they cried.
(Enter the king)
The King gathered the people together and said “I have a plan. Let’s put the names of every child in the city into a hat, and every week we can pull out a name. Whoever’s name gets pulled will be given to the dragon!”
So the villagers agreed, saying "what a very sensible idea!"
(Enter Frankie and his mom)
That day they pulled the name of a young child named Frankie. Frankie began to cry, and his mom held him saying “No, please, have mercy.”
The king was sad, but he said
“The law is the law. Frankie is the first one to be sacrificed.”
So Frankie kissed his mom, and walked towards the dragon, and when he got close, the dragon ate him! Frankies mom fainted!
(exit Frankie, Frankie's mom, enter princess)
A week later, they drew names again. This time they drew the name of the princess! The King said “No, not my daughter! Please, I will give you everything I have! I will pay you with gold and silver, but don’t send my daughter!”
But the villagers said “The law is the law. You would kill our children, and so you too must be prepared to sacrifice! Otherwise we will have to kill you, and your daughter”
The king wept and hugged his daughter, who also cried. He kissed her on the head, and said dramatically “My daughter! Now I will never see you as a bride!”
So the princess got dressed as a bride, as beautiful as she could be, for the day that she would be sent to the dragon.
(Exit all but princess and dragon, enter George)
As she walked alone to the dragons den crying, along came George, a soldier on horseback. Seeing her he said “Beautiful lady, why are you crying?”
The princess said “Get out of here, or the dragon will kill you too!” But as she spoke, the dragon approached.
So George said “Fear nothing but trust Jesus!” and he took his spear, and he stabbed
the dragon in the chest!
The dragon was injured, but did not die. The dragon shrieked in pain! George fastened a rope around its neck, and led it into the city.
(enter villagers, king)
When the people saw the dragon in the city, they screamed and began running away!
But George said “If you will all become Christian, I will kill this dragon.” So the whole city became Christian, including the king and the princess, and George took his sword, and cut off the dragons head.
The princess draped her arms around George's neck, saying "My Hero!" and plastering his face with kisses. then she said "I'm already dressed like a bride, if you hadn't noticed."
But George was like "Awkward" and he rode away on his horse.
St George- Pray for us!
