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The Olde Lighthouse

See "The Lighthouse" in this Big Book.

Cast: Storyteller, Person with Flashlight, 4 "Girders" who are collaborators, 4Victims

Person with flashlight is the lighthouse -- he holds it on his head and turns around so the light turns around to act

like a lighthouse -- also, he occasionally booms out a foghorn.

Storyteller: There once was this lighthouse that did a very fine job of being a lighthouse. It turned around all

the time and gave a nice beam of light. It even had a foghorn in it. (Foghorn....) So it was a very fine lighthouse

indeed. But after many years of fine service and many more storms, it began to be a little shaky in the wind.

(Lighthouse begins to wobble.) So what the authorities did was to put in four girders to support the lighthouse so

that it would give many more years of fine service. (Bring in your girders and place them around the lighthouse,

facing outwards and bent over on a 45 degree angle, with arms stretched out. Lighthouse promptly becomes

straight again, still continuing to turn.) And it indeed did do that. It stood straight for many long years until again

storms caused it to be shaky in the wind. (Wobbles again.) So the port authorities again tried to get the

lighthouse to become straight again. They figured boulders around the bottoms of the girders would do a great

job, so they placed boulders there. (Place your victims in a crouching position, facing in toward the lighthouse,

underneath the outstretched arms of the girders.) And once more, the lighthouse was straight. And it remained so

for many, many years. During the first storm the lighthouse had to endure after the boulders were placed, the

authorities watched to make sure that the lighthouse survived. They saw the rain coming close; they heard the

wind; the water began to rise; and the waves came crashing in on the boulders (Girders start hitting the boulders'

behinds.)