Villagers are hustling and bustling in the village
Talk about the annual sacrifices
Villager 1: ‘How’s the family? Keeping them away from the
forest?’
Villager 2: ‘Yes I have, do you realise how many sacrifices
we send to the creature?’
Villager 1: ‘We send up one a month so twelve a year.’
Villager 2: ‘Yes you’re right, it may be creepy but it stops
the prisons getting overcrowded’
Monster talks in its habitat
Monster: ‘It’s almost time for my so called food again’
Villagers talk about who to send as sacrifice
Sherriff: ‘It’s time to vote for the next prisoner to send
to the creature, so that it doesn’t kill us all.’
Villager 2: ‘I think HE should!’
The Nut: ‘No not me! NOOOOOOO!’
Villager 1: ‘Yes, I think he should, he tried to murder us!
He is a traitor!’
The Nut: ‘No, anything! I’ll do anything, PLEASE!
Sheriff: ‘Send him away.’
Silk worm appears
Silky: ‘Wait! This creature you speak of where is its
abode?’
Sherriff: ‘Through the twisting dark forest hidden within
its lair.’
Villager 2: ‘I thought it lived in the depths of hell
itself?’
Sherriff: ‘It’s not Santa Claus! Stupid villager.’
Villager 2: ‘Well he wears red…’
Sherriff: Anyways, go if you wish to lose your life to save
this scum, but don’t expect our help.’
Silky: ‘I have skills and experience, I will find this
creature and stop the village from living in fear of it.’
The Nut: ‘Thank you, so much.’
Sherriff: ‘If you do this we will crown you our king and
saviour. Good luck.’
Crowd cheers
Silk worm approaches the forest and sees the webs
Silky: ‘I knew those villagers would allow me to be king if
I defeated the creature, but most of all it stops the sacrifices after they
sent my cousin. I want to stop the madness.’
Silky sees the web
Silky: ’Oh this looks like spider web. Is this creature a
Spider?’
Carefully climbs onto them admiring the architecture
Spider appears in front of the Silk Worm
Spider: ‘Yes I am a spider, a very angry one! Are you next?’
Silky: Yes, but I want to stop this madness! Why do you kill
these villagers?’
Spider: ‘No I don’t, I’m misunderstood I am nothing
special.’
Silky: ‘Wait. What? You’re good? But where do all the
sacrifices end up?’
Spider: ‘They get stuck in my web and die, I can’t get them
out once they get stuck. Why aren’t you getting stuck?’
Silky: ‘It’s because I’m a silk worm. I create web myself.
Your web is beautifully crafted you are something and I will show the villagers
you are friendly.’
Spider: ‘Thank you, hopefully this will stop everything.’
After exchanges they start to enjoy each other’s company
Silk Worm heads back to the village
Silky: ‘Villagers she isn’t a bad creature. It is a friendly
creature that means no harm.’
Villager 1: ‘What really?’
Sherriff: ‘This makes some sense, we shall hunt this
creature down to make sure it can’t attack us.’
Villager 1: ‘Yes attack it where it’s weak.’
Silky: ‘No! Don’t! She is defenceless friendly creature! She
makes webs that are works of art.’
Sherriff: ‘We don’t care let’s go kill it!’
Crowd: Angry chanting
The villagers realise the spider isn’t scary and decide to
hunt it
Silk Worm tries to stop the villagers mentioning the webs
etc.
Silky: ‘I must warn the Spider and rescue it from this
madness.’
Silky rushes past
Crowd: ‘Kill it! Kill it!’
Silky gets to the lair
Silky: ‘Quick spider you must escape now! They are hunting
for you!’
Spider: ‘No! I haven’t done anything wrong.’
Silky: ‘No this is crazy!’
Crowd: ‘There it is! KILL IT!’
The villagers get caught in the web unable to move
Crowd: ‘Wait what? NO!’
Spider: ‘They are all stuck. Oh no, they’re going to die.’
Silky: ‘Let’s get out of here and live together. We can’t
help them.
Spider: ‘I’d love that.’
This allows the spider and the silk worm to escape safely
leaving the villagers stuck
Crowd: ‘HELP US!’
Spider and Silk Worm enjoy each other’s company and many
laughs were had
Spider shanks someone
This is the script we used for our performance we put on for our Victorian Theatre. Honestly this was kind of rushed we put a lot of it together by just messing around I feel the outcome was okay but it really needed a bit more work. The group as a whole though worked really well together.
