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The Story of Noah and the
Great flood
SAILOR 1: (reading from the "Bible") Chapter One. The story of Noah and the Great
Flood.
(SAILOR 1 exits with the "Bible.")
STORYTELLER 3: A long, long time ago, God looked over the face of the earth and discov-
ered human beings weren't doing too well.
STORYTELLER 4: (in an exaggeratedly pompous manner) The Bible says: "Every
imagination of the thoughts of their hearts was evil continually."
STORYTELLER 3: Which is another way of saying...
ALL: (flipping to face the audience) People were acting nasty!
(ALL except STORYTELLERS begin to behave wildly and noisily—dancing, pretend
fighting, etc.)
STORYTELLER 4: Hold it! (ALL stop in mid-action and look to STORYTELLER 4.) I'm sorry,
but you were enjoying that way too much.
(ALL grumble and sit down.)
STORYTELLER 3: Now all that nastiness was making the earth itself pretty nasty.
STORYTELLER 4: So God decided to wipe everything off the face of the earth and start
over.
STORYTELLER 3: Now the one bright spot in this picture was a couple by the name of Mr.
and Mrs. Noah.
(NOAH and MRS. NOAH stand and link arms, center stage.)
STORYTELLER 4: The Bible says that Noah was somebody who "walked with God."
(NOAH and MRS. NOAH start walking in place on the word "walked" above.)
STORYTELLER 3: So God spoke to Noah and asked him to build a great big boat…
STORYTELLER 4: …called an ark…
STORYTELLER 3: …out of gopher wood...
STORYTELLER 4: ...which I guess is another name for hickory and not a description of how
he had to get it... (NOAH and MRS. NOAH stop walking as STORY-
TELLER 4 looks at the audience expectantly, waiting for a laugh.) Get it?
Gopher wood? Go—for—the wood?
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