Tower of Babel
CHARACTERS: 3 (and as many extras as you wish)
PROPS: Tools, optional
(Elam and Peleg, who sound like construction workers from New Jersey approach Joktan and/ or more puppets having breakfast)
PELEG: Hey, Joktan. Showing up late for work again?
ELAM: Don’t bother coming in today.
PELEG: All the work on the great tower has come to a halt. Elam and I just came from there.
ELAM: That’s right – I was telling Peleg here its absolute confusion. The bricks aren’t getting moved, tar got spilled all over. A real mess.
PELEG: Most of the people are speaking some sort of gibberish. Nobody can tell what’s going on.
ELAM: It’s a regular zoo over there. And I think I know who’s at the bottom of it. Nimrod. (mocking) Nimrod, the mighty hunter. I think he’s got all the Cushites pretending they can’t understand us so they don’t have to take orders from us.
PELEG: That old dude, the lunatic that keeps saying we’re disgracing the name of YHWH by trying to make a name for ourselves and build a tower right up into the heavens ...
Peleg: (interrupting) Yeah, that old fool Javan (Joktan just gives him a blank stare and shakes his head “no”) the one that says that the heavens and the earth were created in 6 days, (Joktan nods “yes” like he’s just figured out who the guy is) Javan says this is something YHWH did to humble us.
ELAM: Get this. Javan says from now on we’ll speak in different languages. But that’s just crazy talk.
PELEG: We all speak the same language.
ELAM: I’m sure its Nimrod and the Cushites trying to pull one over on the rest of us and grab the glory for themselves.
PELEG: (excited with his “bright idea”) Or maybe its Nahor and Aram playing some kind of practical joke. Everybody pretending they don’t understand a word anybody else is saying. What do you think, Joktan?
JOKTAN: Yo no hablo espanole.
OPTIONAL OTHER: Parlez vouz, Francais?
OPTIONAL OTHER: Sprechen Sie German? |
