script - Fosse Deanery

SCENE 1
Narrator
Landowner
Workers 1
Narrator
Landowner
Workers 2
Narrator
Landowner
Workers 3
Narrator
Landowner
Workers 4
Narrator
Landowner
Workers 5
Landowner
Narrator
Landowner
Foreman
Landowner
The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the
morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Will you work in my vineyard today I’ll pay you one denarius for the day.
Yes.
About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the
marketplace doing nothing.
Will you also go and work in my vineyard I will pay you whatever is
right.
Yes.
The landowner went out again about noon.
Will you also go and work in my vineyard I will pay you whatever is
right.
Yes.
The landowner went out again about three in the afternoon.
Will you also go and work in my vineyard I will pay you whatever is
right.
Yes.
About five in the afternoon he went out and found others still standing
around.
Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing
Because no one has hired us.
You also go and work in my vineyard.
When evening came, the owner of the vineyard spoke to his foreman.
Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones
hired and going on to the first.
Could all the workers who were hired at five o’clock please come here
Here you are. One denarius each. Thank you for your work.

SCENE 2
Worker
Landowner
Narrator
That’s not fair! These people who were hired last only worked for one
hour, and you’ve made them equal to us, who’ve borne the burden of
the work and the heat of the day.
I’m not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a
denarius Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired
last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with
my own money Or are you envious because I’m generous
So the last will be first, and the first will be last.