FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE NATIVITY
Medieval Mystery Plays

Directed by Jason Morgan

Production Dates:		Runs December 12 - 14, Friday 8:00 P.M., Saturday at 2:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M., Sunday at 2:00 P.M. Performances are at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center in the Sanders Theatre, 1300 Gendy St. / Fort Worth, TX 76107 / and December 17 in Irving at 7:30 P.M.

Audition:		The audition will consist of cold readings from the script. We are looking for all types and all parts are available to male and females. Walk-ins are welcome to audition, but you may e-mail us at Morganssg@aol.com to make an audition appointment. please bring a headshot and resume. This is being done purely as an artistic endeavor and is a non-equity production. All parts are avaliable.

Audition date and time:		2:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 27 7:00 p.m. on Monday, September 29

		- Possible callbacks TBA

Place:		FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
		210 East 6th Street
		Irving, TX 75061-4116
		Go to the Family Living Center behind the church
		Church website: fccirving.org

PLAYS AND PARTS:

THE CREATION

God

Cherubim

Lucifer

Satin

1st Good Angel

Adam

1st Bad Angel

1st Devil

2nd Good Angel

Eve

2nd Bad Angel

2nd Devil

NOAH

Noah

1st son

1st wife

God

2nd son

2nd wife

Noah's wife

3rd son

3rd wife

THE PROCESSION OF THE PROPHETS

Moses

David

Sibyl

Daniel

JOSEPH'S TROUBLE ABOUT MARY

God

Gabriel

Mary

Joseph

THE SALUTATION OF ELIZABETH

Mary

Elizabeth

THE NATIVITY

Joseph

Mary

THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT

Joseph

Mary

Angel

THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS

Messenger

1st Counselor

1st Soilder

1st woman

Herod

2nd Counselor

2nd Soilder

2nd woman

3rd Soilder

3rd woman

THE PURIFICATION OF MARY

1st angel

Joseph

Symeon

2nd angel

Mary

SIDE 1

GOD:

I am the first, the last also,---------------------------------------------------------------------------

One god in majesty;

Marvellous of might most,

Father, Son and Holy Ghost,

One god in trinity.

I am with out beginning

My godhead hath no ending

And thus shall keep my throne;

One God in persons three,

which may never parted be,

For I am God alone.

All manner of things is in my thought,

Without my power there may be nought,

All things are in my sight;

It shall be done after my will,

What I have planned I shall fulfil

And maintain with my might.

SIDE 2

LUCIFER:

Certain it is a seemly sight,--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Since that we are all angels bright,

And ever in bliss to be;

If but ye behold me right,

Worship is due me.

I am so fair and bright,

From me comes all this light,

This glamour and this glee;

Against so great a might

May no resistance be.

As ye may well behold

I am a thousandfold

Brighter than is the sun;

My strength may none;

In heaven, therefore, I hold

Myself above everyone.

For I am lord of bliss,

My toe the world may kiss,

My mirth is most of all,

Therefore, my will is this,

Master ye shall me call.

And when I come into my own,

How seemly may I mount the throne

As king of bliss;

I am so bright of blood and bone,

My seat shall be there as was his.

(Lucifer sits in GOD's throne.)

Say, fellows, how fits it me

To sit in seat of trinity?

I am so bright in every limb

I trust I seem as well as him.

- Note that Adam and Eve will be costumed, so you will not be asked to perform in the nude.

SIDE 3

EVE: Adam! Have the fruit full good.------------------------------------------------------------

ADAM: Alas! Woman, why took thou this?

Our Lord commanded us both

To shun this tree of his.

Thy work will make him wroth,

Alas! Thou hast done amiss.

EVE: Adam, by grief be nought beset,

And I shall say the reason why;

Such wisdom hissed a worm I met,

We shall as gods be, thou and I,

If that we ate

Here of this tree; Adam, deny

Not such worship for to get,

For we shall be wise

As God that is so great,

And so ourselves may prize;

So eat and earn that state.

ADAM: To eat it I would not eschew,

If certain of thy saying.

EVE: Bite on boldly, for it is true,

As gods we shall know everything.

ADAM: To win that name

I shall it taste at thy teaching.

(ADAM bites the apple.)

Alas! What havi I done for shame!

Ill counsel same from thee!

Ah! Eve, thou art to blame,

That thus enticed thou me;

My limbs against me exclaim,

For I am naked as I think.

EVE: Alas, Adam, right so am I.

ADAM: And for sorrow why might we not sink,

For we have grieved God almighty

That made me man,

Broken his bidding bitterly,

Alas! That ever we it began!

This work, Eve, thou hast wrought,

And made this bad bargain.

EVE: Nay, Adam, chide me nought.

ADAM: Alas, dear Eve, whom then?

EVE: The worm of chiding is most worthy,

With tales untrue he me betrayed.

ADAM: Alas! I listened to thy story,

And let with lies thou me persuade.

So may I bide,

For that rash act I am repaid,

For that deed done I curse my pride.

Our nakedness me grieves,

Wherewith shall we it hide?

EVE: Let us take these fig-leaves

Since they grow here beside.

ADAM: Right as thou say so shall it be,

For we are naked and all bare.

Full gladly now I would hide me,

From my Lord's sight, I know not where,

So I be not caught.

SIDE 4

(Noah has just finished speaking to God about building the Ark)

NOAH: Lord, homeward will I fast in haste as that I may;------------------------------------

My wife will I ask what she will say,

And I am all aghast lest there be some fray

Between us both;

For she is full tetchy,

For little oft angry,

If anything wrong be,

Soon is she wroth.

(He goes to his wife.)

God speed thee , wife, how fare ye?

WIFE: Now, as ever might I thrive, the worse to see thee;

Tell me, on your life, where thus long could thou be?

To death may we drive, because of thee,

Alack.

When work weary we sink,

Thou dost what thou think,

Yet of meat and drink

Have we great lack.

NOAH: Wife, we are hard pressed with tidings new.

WIFE: But thou ought to be dressed in stafford blue;

For thou art always depressed, be it false or true;

God Knows I am oppressed, and that may I rue,

Full ill;

All I hear is thy crow,

From even till morrow,

Screeching ever sorrow;

God send thee once thy fill.

But in a little while,

What with game and guile,

I shall smite and smile

And pay him back instead.

NOAH: Hush! Hold thy tongue, or I shall thee still.

WIFE: As I thrive, if thou smite, I shall pay back with skill.

NOAH: We shall see who is righ, have at thee, Gill!

Upon the bone shall it bite!

WIFE: Ah, by Mary! Thou smitest ill!

But I suppose

I shall not in thy debt

Leave this place yet!

This srap is what you get

To tie up thy hose!

NOAH: Ah! Wilt thou so? MAry, that is mine.

WIFE: Have thou three for two, I swear, by God divine,

NOAH: I shall requite each blow, your skin will bear my sign.

WIFE: Out upon thee, ho!

NOAH: Thou can both bite and whine

For all thou art worth.

For though she will strike,

Her shrieks my ears spike,

There is not her like

On all this earth.

WIFE: But I will keep charity in this to-do

Here shall no man tarry thee; I pray thee go to!

Full well may we miss thee, as peace is our due;

To spin will I address me.

Farewell, then, to you.

NOAH: But wife,

Pray for me busily,

Till again I come to thee.

WIFE: Even as thou prayest for me,

As ever might I thrive.

NOAH: I tarry full long, to my work I must go;

My gear take along and watch the work grow;

I may go all wrong, in truth, I it know;

If God's help is not strong I may sit in sorrow.