Miners to Survivors
Narrator: Olivia Blake
Gina: Lucia Panch
Isabelle: Debi Teferi
Jacob: Andreas Philippakis
Jen: Katie Rouse-Irwin
Mr. Mustachio: Declan Caffrey
Monster & Sound Effect : Michael Joyce
Goblins: Mathilde Saint- Pere and Isla Noll
(also in charge of opening curtains and music)
SCENE 1: MR. MUSTACHIO’S OFFICE
(curtains open and lights come on)
Mr. Mustachio: I have called you to this meeting because you
have been assigned a very dangerous mission. Something that no one has ever completed in the history of man…
Jacob: What is it?
(Mr. Mustachio gives Jacob a hard stare)
Mr. Mustachio: ANYWAY, as I was SAYING… (glares angrily at Jacob) This mission has never been completed. EVER. And I think you four can handle it.
Jen: Wait! You mean… the three of us, right?
Mr. Mustachio: Meet professional rock climber, grade A student in Harvard University, three years of training in mining, all-star wilderness explorer and navigator, Gina Halico!
(Gina walks in from the left stage)
Gina: Hi.
Everybody: Hi!
Mr. Mustachio: I have called you all to this meeting to discuss something significant; something that has been pondered for thousands of years. There is an ancient prophecy written in an unknown language, and people have been working to decode it for thousands of years. And this is the translation: (pulls out a copy of prophecy) “He who comes to the Sehr Ignant will meet the Mehr Salcehm, and will not live to reach the foot of the mountain. The consequences are…” And that’s all we could translate.
Everybody: Woah. (astonished)
Isabelle: But what does that mean?
Mr. Mustachio: It means you need to find the original prophecy and bring it back to me because legend has it that if we don’t find it within 1 year, the Mehr Salcehm will dominate all of our kind. And that was written about 1,000 years ago, so technically we only have less than 3 weeks to find the prophecy. And I got this key from a classified source that may be helpful on your mission. I don’t know what it’s for, but it may end up changing the world.
(hands Gina key)
Isabelle: But what’s a Mehr Salcehm?
Mr. Mustachio: And that’s the other reason you were put on this mission. You need to find out what this strange Mehr Salcehm is. The fate of the world may be in your hands.
Gina: When do we leave?
Mr. Mustachio: You leave tomorrow at 10:30, I have already booked your flight.
Jen: Hold on. Where are we going exactly?
Mr. Mustachio: Mount Fuji in Japan!
Everybody: Woah. (astonished)
(curtains close)
Narrator: And so, the four miners set off to Mt. Fuji in hopes of finding the ancient prophecy.
SCENE 2: HOTEL
(Everybody is putting luggage away)
Jacob: I am so hyped for this mission!
Gina: It will be dangerous, don’t you think?
Isabelle: She has a point.
Jen: Wait, wait, wait, wait, you’re not thinking about chickening out, are you?
Isabelle: Are not!
Gina: Yeah!
Jen: Then let’s act like warriors!
Everybody: Yeah!
Izzy: Remember, this trip is very important, let's not get sidetracked.
Jacob: Let's get some sleep.
(everybody gets in sleeping bags)
(curtains close)
Narrator: The adventurous group needed rest for the big day, so even though it was only 4:30 pm., they decided to go to sleep because they probably wouldn’t have that priority for the next few days. And the next day at dawn, they set off for the mountain.
SCENE 3: MT. FUJI
(curtains reopen)
Jacob: I am so ready for this trip!
Gina: We have no idea what we’re in for.
(walks offstage/into Mt. Fuji!)
(walks onstage, now underneath Mt. Fuji)
Isabelle: We’re finally here!
Jacob: It’s so cool! We’re under a mountain!
Jen: Ok, guys. Do we have the first aid kit?
Jacob: Ugh! Do we need it? No one’s gonna DIE on this expedition!
Jen: Why do you think we have four people on this mission? To get a free rock climbing lesson? Our boss assigned us an extra person, so that, if something happens to us, we’ll still have three more people.
Jacob: (sighs) I have the first aid kit. (pulls out first aid kit)
(miners walk through the mine and dig in the ground)
Gina: My calculations say that we are now 20 feet below the ground.
Isabelle: Wow! You’re a whiz at math! (stunned)
Jen: We need to go about 1,800 feet lower than this.
Narrator: And one long very, long walk later, further underneath the mountain, the miners needed to sleep. But they also needed to keep going forward.
Isabelle: (groans) Can we stop now?
Jacob: Yeah, I wanna sleep!
Gina: Same, please can we go to sleep, Jen?
Jen: Fine!
Everyone but Jen: Hurray!
Narrator: And so, after some consideration, the miners decided to pull out their sleeping bags, and call it a night.
(The group pulls out sleeping bags and goes to sleep (everyone snores))
Narrator: But while they were peacefully sleeping, Isabelle woke up because she was hungry. (goblins walk onstage and Isabelle wakes up) But when she opened her eyes, she saw two strange faces staring back at her.
Isabelle: Aaaaaaaaaah! (smacks goblin) What are you? Wait a second, I do know you! You’re in my book of ugly creatures! (pulls out her book of ugly creatures and puts it in the goblins’ face)
Elizabeth: Mo te cho hee! (How dare you insult me!)
Goblin 2: Fee hey yople! (Let's take her to the dungeon!)
(goblin 1 and 2 carry her off stage)
Isabelle: Ahhhhhhhhhh! Help!!! Let me go!!!!!
(goblins carry Isabelle and walk offstage)
Jacob: What was that? (others wake up)
Gina: Oh come on, the first mission with you guys and everything is already all wrong!
Jen: Uh, not true!
Gina: Geez, I was kidding!
Jacob: Stop fighting, guys! I think I saw Izzy being taken by these weird creatures!
Jen: Really?
Gina: Can we please save her before it’s too late?
Jen: Yeah! (everybody runs offstage)
(curtains close, everyone puts sleeping bags away and sets dungeon door up)
Narrator: And to save Izzy, they had to be stealthy and quiet so that the goblins wouldn’t see them for the fear of being the next ones captive under the goblins’ rule.
(goblins walk back from right stage with Izzy, miners walking behind them)
Elizabeth: Bee smuk gus! (Throw her in the dungeon!)
Goblin 2: (nods)
(goblins open door and throws Izzy in the dungeon)
(goblins walk offstage)
(miners walk through the dungeon door)
(curtains close)
SCENE 4: THE DUNGEON
(curtains open)
(miners all gasp and hug Izzy)
Jen: Oh, Izzy!
Gina: We thought we might never see you again!
Isabelle: Thanks, you guys! I was sooooo freaked out!
Jacob: We were too! It was freaky following you here. What were those things?
Isabelle: Oh, those things? Totally harmless. Just a few goblins.
Gina: What????
Jen: Goblins, as in G-O-B-L-I-N-S?!
Jacob: Harmless?! They could have pierced your eyes out!
Gina: And squished them out into millions of pieces! I wonder why they didn’t…
Jen: They must have something even more dangerous down here that just a few flesh-eating monsters ready to rip you apart at any given moment.
Isabelle: In that case, I definitely want to get out. Like, now.
Gina: But what about the prophecy? Shouldn't we go and find it?
Jen: May I remind you that we are locked in a dungeon. And this isn’t Indiana Jones. We don’t have any ropes or anything. We’re goners!
(loud footsteps)
Isabelle: Did you have to say that?
Jen: RUN!!!
(Everyone runs away while Izzy stays put)
Jacob: What are you doing? DO YOU SEE THAT THING?! HIDE!
Isabelle: There’s no reason for all of you to die. I’m the one who got caught by the goblins. Now go!
Narrator: Jacob hesitated. He didn't want to leave her there to die. (dramatic music in the background) But he realized she was right.
Isabelle: Now go on without me! If we have a chance to survive, this is the way! I’m your distraction! Now get out of here!
Jacob: We might not ever see you again!
Isabelle: Love y'all! Now go! GO! IT’S COMING!!
(dramatic music stops)
(Everyone but Izzy runs away and hides in corner of stage)
Narrator: As Izzy was preparing herself to face DEATH, a beast came running after her (loud footsteps), but weirdly enough, it wasn't a goblin. It was a dinosaur! (curtains close with Jurassic Park theme music)
Isabelle: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
Dinosaur: ggglllurrrrrrgggllllllllurrrrrggg
(dinosaur swallows Izzy)
Everyone but Isabelle: Isabelle, NO!!!!!
(curtains open)
(Isabelle runs backstage yelling, Ahhhhhh! While everyone else looks up)
(Isabelle falls in corner of left stage, unconscious)
(Jen feels Isabelle’s heartbeat)
Jen: She’s alive! Get me the first aid kit NOW!
Gina: You have the first aid kit, Jacob!
Jacob: I do? Oh yeah, I do! (gives first aid kit to Jen)
(Gina feels Izzy’s wrist)
Gina: She’s got a broken wrist.
(Jen wraps puts brace around Izzy’s arm)
(footsteps come closer)
Jen: I guess we just have to carry her until she regains consciousness.
Jacob: And we need to go NOW.
(Dinosaur roars and footsteps come closer)
(Jen and Gina carry Isabelle)
(everyone runs offstage while dinosaur chases them)
(curtains close)
SCENE 5: THE CHASE
Narrator: The miners had to run for their lives to escape the dinosaur. But this meant more than running away. They had to be strategic and clever. But at the time they weren’t doing that. They were just running as fast as they could until they suffered the consequences for it.
(curtains reopen)
(miners run onstage)
(Footsteps and roaring continues)
(miners run into trap (blanket) and they get caught in the trap)
Gina: I knew I should have done the national rock-climbing championship instead of this!
Jacob: Now is not the time, Gina!
Isabelle: Guys? Where are we?
Everybody but Isabelle: Isabelle! You’re ok!
Jacob: We’re stuck in a trap and that dino is AFTER us!
Isabelle: Oh, pickles. How are we supposed to explain this to Mr. Mustachio? And what is this? (Izzy lifts up wrist) Ow!
Gina: You broke your wrist in the fall, Izzy.
Isabelle: Thanks for wrapping it. Are we gonna make it out alive?
Jen: We’ll find some other way to get out of this mess.
(curtains close with Jurassic Park theme music)
Narrator: The trap sent the miners to somewhere much more dangerous than the dinosaur! They were sent to an underground (curtains open) field of sharp spikes that was designed to crush anyone that was dropped into it.
(bed sheets open and drop everyone)
Everybody: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Jacob: Oh No, I’m dying! My life is over! Ahhhh!!
Jen: We’re alive, Jacob. (rolls eyes)
Jacob: Woah. Where are we?
Isabelle: I think we’re in a field where the grass is spikes! And look at the walls! They have goblin language written all over them! I think I can translate. “You are close to the end of all eternity. Go back now or the Mehr Salcehm will dominate all.
Gina: My calculations say we are way deeper than before. That dinosaur is way above us by now. We must have dropped about 300 feet!
Jen: And what’s the Mehr Salcehm?!
Isabelle: How am I supposed to know? I only know as much as you guys do! Narrator: The miners continued forward, now very cautious not to get caught in another ancient trap.
(Jacob lifts his foot on a trap)
Jen: Jacob, watch out!
Jacob: Oh, thanks, Jen! (moves foot away)
Gina: We’ve really got to watch our step.
(Gina walks forward and a trap falls in front of her).
Gina: Yikes!
Jacob: Gina! Are you okay!
Jen: We need to be more careful. This place is a booby trap- (steps on trap) Uh oh.
Everybody but Jen: Jen!! What have you done!? (everyone gets trapped under the net)
Jacob: No! I… can’t… move…
Gina: Now we’re going to die.
Jen: I guess it’s finally time to call it quits.
Isabelle: Ughh. My arm.
Jen: (gasps) Hope is not lost! I never leave on an expedition without my scissors! (takes scissors out of backpack and cuts net open and walks out of net)
(everyone crawls out of net)
Gina: We’re alive!
Jacob: You saved our butts!
(Izzy looks to the right)
Isabelle: Guys, do you see that all the way down there?
Jacob: That door?
Isabelle: Yeah. Should we go investigate?
gina: I don’t know…
Jen: We’ve survived falling in a pit of spikes, a 2000 year old angry dino, 10,000 booby traps, and even knowing about the ancient prophecy. I don’t think the ancient goblin people were expecting that, so I think it’s all smooth sailing ahead.
(miners walk offstage)
(triumphant music)
(curtains close)
(triumphant music stops)
Narrator: Was this the moment the miners have been waiting for? Did they finally find the ancient prophecy? They would all find out right now.
Jacob: We’re finally here. I think the prophecy lies behind this door.
Jen: Oh, pickles. Our mission is over. There’s a key lock, and we don’t have the key.
Jacob: We should have fallen into more traps!
(everyone looks at him, puzzled)
Jacob: Then maybe a different trap would have led us to the key!
Gina: Wait! Didn’t Mr. Mustachio give us some sort of key?
Jen: Oh, yeah. He did!
(Gina takes out key and puts it in slot)
(door opens)
(ominous music plays)
(curtains close)
(ominous music stops)
(curtains open and music stops)
(dinosaur roars)
Isabelle: It’s the dinosaur again!!
Gina: What can we do to distract it?
Jacob: I’ll do it! I know what I’m doing!
(Jacob distracts dinosaur)
Jacob: Take the prophecy and get out of here!
Jen: No! If one of us dies, we all die!
(dinosaur sticks out head from backstage)
(Everyone falls on the ground and dinosaur opens its mouth)
Jacob: Now there’s nothing to save us now!
Isabelle: You said you were going to distract it!
Jacob: I guess now we’re all distracting it!
Isabelle: From what?
(Gina grabs prophecy and dinosaur whines and gets blasted away along with a shining light (flash photography))
Jen: What just happened?
Gina: I got the prophecy!
Everyone: Yay!
Narrator: The power that came with the prophecy, however, was meant to keep anyone from getting ahold of it. So, since the dinosaur had kept the magic evil group of goblins from dying out, when he was wiped out of existence by the ancient prophecy, the whole cave lost its magic to make something far worse come after the miners than a dinosaur and a pit of spikes: a cave-in.
(rumbling sound (5 seconds))
Jacob: I thought now we were safe!
Gina: I guess not!
Jen: Don’t lose that thing!
Gina: Never mind that! WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!
(miners run offstage)
(goblins run onstage)
Goblin 1: Ecubee! (Hide!)
(goblins fall on the ground and cover their heads)
(miners run past them)
Goblin 1: Rhe Mehr Salchem kalmer ista!
(Isabelle stops running)
Isabelle: Did you guys hear that? They just said: “The Mehr Salchem is dead. We’re doomed!”
Gina: (gasps) I know what the Mehr Salchem is!
Everyone: What?
Gina: The dinosaur!
Goblin 2: Sem alen! (It’s them!)
Jen: We need to get out of here! The goblins know we’re here!
(miners run offstage and goblins chase them)
(miners run onstage and goblins chase them)
(paper rocks get thrown at goblins)
Goblins: Ahhhhhhh!!!
(goblins fall to the ground)
Miners: Yes!
(curtains close)
Narrator: The miners had just barely avoided the bloodthirsty goblins before they were crushed by rocks, and they climbed up the mountain with no time to spare before the whole 2000 feet below the mountain was demolished. It however affected no part of Mt. Fuji, and the miners made it out safe and sound with the prophecy to show Mr. Mustachio.
(curtains close)
SCENE 6: MR. MUSTACHIO’S OFFICE
(curtains open)
Mr. Mustachio: (smiles) I am glad to see that you are all back in one piece. You look exhausted!
Isabelle: That’s probably because we were on the run with no sleep for 43 hours.
Jacob: There was so much stuff down there! Like a DINOSAUR and a maze of booby traps! And and a—”
Mr. Mustachio: I don’t care how the heck y'all survived! The main question is do you have the prophecy?
Gina: Right here, sir.
(gives Mr. Mustachio prophecy)
(Mr. Mustachio looks in awe at the prophecy)
Mr. Mustachio: I’m really proud of you all. I think you just saved the world from being taken over by a monster.
Jacob: Yeah! It was a dinosaur!
Mr. Mustachio: You really proved yourself on this mission. Which is why I’d like to award you your first badges.
Jen: Badges? We never got those before.
Mr. Mustachio: Have you ever been on a mission this dangerous before?
Jen: I guess not.
(Mr. Mustachio gets out of his chair and gives miners badges)
(miners put on badges)
(triumphant music plays)
(curtains close)
(triumphant music stops)
(everyone comes onstage and bows)
Narrator: Thank you for watching!
THE END