It's the End of the World As We Know It
(A drama about worry)

Director's Notes:
Pastor Ray started a new series about going into the 21st Century so I wrote this one about the whole Y2K thing. Note that this drama uses a PowerPoint show. I've attached it HERE. Simply right-click on it and select "Save Target As..."

Cast:
Dennis: A normal guy turned radical survivalist
Tina: Dennis' girlfriend

Props:
A backpack
A duffle bag with clothes
Spatula
Bible
PowerPoint presentation

Setting:
Living Room

(LIGHTS UP CENTER STAGE where Dennis is packing up stuff. Tina is knocking on the door outside the worship center.)

Tina: Dennis? Dennis? Are you home?

Dennis: (Goes up to door) Who is it? Who’s there? I’ve got to warn you – I have a gun (actually, he’s holding a spatula)

Tina: What?! Dennis? It’s me – Tina!

Dennis: Tina? Tina who?

Tina: Tina, your-soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend. Now open this door.

Dennis: Oh, okay. (opens it and runs back to the stage)

Tina: What in the world is wrong with you? I’ve been trying to call for hours.

Dennis: I’ve had the phone disconnected.

Tina: Disconnected? Why?

Dennis: Because in a few short months, it’s not going to work anyway.

Tina: What do you mean?

Dennis: Tina, where have you been living for the last 2 years? Haven’t you heard about it?

Tina: Heard about what?

Dennis: Y2K as in Kill as in we’re all going to DIE!

Tina: Oh come on. It’s not that bad.

Dennis: What do you mean, it’s horrible! Aren’t you worried?

Tina: Yeah, there’s going to be problems and we should be prepared but I’m not going to worry about it. Why bother?

Dennis: Why bother? Why bother? Have you looked at Y2K as a mathematical/historical formula?

Tina: Um, no.

Dennis: Here (pulls out a book – SHOW SLIDE 1). See, if you use the alphabetic to numeric conversions and then turn it into Hebrew you get 666!

Tina: Wait a minute! I don’t think…

Dennis: And look at this! I found this in the Bible! It’s straight out of the book of Hezakiah.

(SLIDE #2 – BEGIN TRACK 2: King of Kings) "And behold King Uzzah wenteth up on high and dids’t bow low and dids’t feast upon the orangutan and the fruit bats and dids’t roll in the mud. And the people saw this and were amazed and they said to him "Why dost though rolleth in the mud and feast upon the orangutan and upon the fruit bats?" And King Uzzah dids’t say "Yea verily, why are you amazed. You are a wicked people" and the people saidth back to him "You too King." And a heavenly host came down and touched the ground and it didst open up and the people were devoured by it."

Tina: I don’t get it.

Dennis: "You too King?"… Y2K!

Tina: Let me see that. (takes the Bible). Wait a minute. There’s no book of Hezakiah. You wrote this in here.

Dennis: (takes it back) It doesn’t matter. We’re all going to die. Now, come on, help me pack.

Tina: Where are you going?

Dennis: You mean where are WE going. We’re going to my mom’s bomb shelter.

Tina: You’re mom’s bomb shelter? You mean the swimming pool?

Dennis: Pool, shelter, same thing. It's got a tarp over it. C'mon!

Tina: Dennis. #1: I’m not going. #2: I’m not worrying about it. #3: You’ve lost your mind.

Dennis: Blasphemer! Heathen! (grabs his stuff) You should have listened to the prophet Hezekiah! We’re all going to die! Arghhh!

Tina: (Waits for him to run out of the room) Hope he doesn't eat any orangutans...

LIGHTS OUT FAST

END

© 1999 Dave Marsh