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The Interpreter - Notes for the Director Requirements Cast: 3 roles: Gender neutral. Costume: There is no particular costume required for any performer, however the interpreter should be in something that he can move around in. There are several props required. A stick or pole of somesort, a sword (I used a collapsible light saber for both), a bowl, a toy mallet, club or bat, sunglasses, a football, and a whistle, Technical: No special sound or lighting effects are required. Set: A podium for the speaker and plenty of room for the interpreter to move around. Notes: The wilder the better. Even the speaker should not be dull. Let him get into his speech excitedly. The important thing for the interpreter is to act like the whole thing is completely normal. If you have somebody who knows, or can reasonably fake, real sign language, replace "dramatic impaired" for "hearing impaired" and use legitimate sign language until you perform the silly routines. You will need to cut the sign language off early at times in order to be ready to go on the silly stuff at the propert time Please feel free to rewrite the silly routines if you think of something funnier or appropriate for a specific quality of your church or audience. My thoughts: The very first thing I ever performed in front of a real audience was "Bible Junkie" by Isaac Air Freight. I was so scared that my voice was shaking and quivering violently into the microphone. But the skit is one of a junkie admitting his problem as if at an AA meeting, so everybody thought that my legitimate fear was just me acting. I have been performing for over 20 years now, and I still get a serious case of nerves every time I go on stage. It's gone within a few minutes, but it's there to begin with. I wrote this skit to be the ice breaker. It would be the first one we would perform when we would take a drama group and perform a collection of skits, songs and plays. It's a wild piece intended to get the butterflies out. Use it for your actor who begins nervously and needs a few minutes to let adrenaline take over. I have performed this piece on its own and followed it with a sermon on giving it your all. You can't be wishy washy as the interpreter and expect people to laugh. Likewise, if you're wishy washy as a Christian, the most you're going to get out of people is pity. But other than that, it's really not a spritual powerhouse. Just have fun with it. I am the pen. The Interpreter

The Interpreter - Notes for the Director

Requirements

Cast: 3 roles: Gender neutral.

Costume: There is no particular costume required for any performer, however the interpreter should be in something that he can move around in. There are several props required. A stick or pole of somesort, a sword (I used a collapsible light saber for both), a bowl, a toy mallet, club or bat, sunglasses, a football, and a whistle,

Technical: No special sound or lighting effects are required.

Set: A podium for the speaker and plenty of room for the interpreter to move around.

Notes: The wilder the better. Even the speaker should not be dull. Let him get into his speech excitedly. The important thing for the interpreter is to act like the whole thing is completely normal.

If you have somebody who knows, or can reasonably fake, real sign language, replace "dramatic impaired" for "hearing impaired" and use legitimate sign language until you perform the silly routines. You will need to cut the sign language off early at times in order to be ready to go on the silly stuff at the propert time

Please feel free to rewrite the silly routines if you think of something funnier or appropriate for a specific quality of your church or audience.

My thoughts: The very first thing I ever performed in front of a real audience was "Bible Junkie" by Isaac Air Freight. I was so scared that my voice was shaking and quivering violently into the microphone. But the skit is one of a junkie admitting his problem as if at an AA meeting, so everybody thought that my legitimate fear was just me acting. I have been performing for over 20 years now, and I still get a serious case of nerves every time I go on stage. It's gone within a few minutes, but it's there to begin with.

I wrote this skit to be the ice breaker. It would be the first one we would perform when we would take a drama group and perform a collection of skits, songs and plays. It's a wild piece intended to get the butterflies out. Use it for your actor who begins nervously and needs a few minutes to let adrenaline take over.

I have performed this piece on its own and followed it with a sermon on giving it your all. You can't be wishy washy as the interpreter and expect people to laugh. Likewise, if you're wishy washy as a Christian, the most you're going to get out of people is pity. But other than that, it's really not a spritual powerhouse. Just have fun with it.

I am the pen.

The Interpreter