Summary: The eye and the foot consider their relative merits in the body in a humorous way. Keywords: Gifts.
Style: Lighthearted. Duration: 5min
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27
Actors: 2M/FCharacters
‘Eye’ and ‘Foot’
Script
[EYE has a ‘superior’ tone; FOOT has a more ‘common’ tone]
E: Eye am an eye.
F: And I’m a foot.
E: And we both belong ...
F: ... to the same body
E: But Eye am more important.
F: No you’re not.
E: Yes Eye am.
F: No you’re not -- I am!
E: YOU!!!!! Eye am far superior to you!!! You are well beneath me!! Eye am up here -- and you [pause, then distastefully] are down there!
F: What’s that got to do with it?
E: Ignorant as well as inferior! It shows that Eye have a much higher calling than you! And just consider my design! You know what a camera is, I suppose?
F: [indignantly] I’m not stupid, you know!
E: No. [Pause, then distastefully] Just so low!!!
Consider the camera’s complicated design -- lenses, shutters, all sorts of parts. And Eye am far more complex than that! Eye give the body light. Eye give it vision and sight. Eye enable it to see in colour -- to focus on everything in creation; to read, to discover, to do all manner of things. [Pause] And what, pray, do you do?
F: [overcome by Eye’s list of abilities] Well ... I ... I ... I ...
E: [interrupting sarcastically] All you do is stand there [pause -- then with mirth] and sweat!! You even have to have ‘odour eaters’ put under you to stop you smelling revolting!!! [Laughs] And as for those five funny looking things stuck on the end -- well -- need Eye say more?!!
F: [recovering and fighting back] Yes, you do need to say more, [mimicking] Miss Eye and Mighty! If you were so clever, you’d know that toes give balance to the body -- and without them and me, you’d be flat on your eye-lids!
E: [trying to intervene] Now just a minute ...
F: [interrupting forcefully] No -- you just wait a minute! I haven’t finished!
E: [taken aback] Eye say ...
F: [interrupting] That’s just your trouble -- you’ve got too much to say! If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t be able to go anywhere! I take the weight of this whole body, and, because of me it can go places -- because of me, you can see all that’s around. If it wasn’t for me, your vision would be limited.
E: [reflectively] Eye see.
F: You’re right -- you do see! That’s your skill -- that’s your contribution to the body. And it’s time you stopped looking down on me and my abilities.
[Pause]
E: Eye owe you an apology.
F: [mimicking] And eye accept it!
E: Let’s start this again.
F: OK by me! After you!
[Pause]
E: Eye am an eye.
F: And I’m a foot.
E: And we both belong ...
F: ... to the same body.
[Pause, then together while looking at each other]
And we’re both as important as each other!!
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