“I See Dead People”
by
Rebecca Wimmer
What A poetic monologue on the futility of chasing after things that are temporary
instead of chasing things that are eternal.
Themes: Life, Living, Faith, Eternity, Purpose
Who Narrator
When Present
Wear No props necessary.
(Props) A creative option is to create a cemetery or graveyard on stage. Nothing spooky,
but an environment to drive home the point.
Why Matthew 23:27-28, James 2:14-26, John 10:10
How This script could very easily be divided up and given to 3-4 different readers,
making it a Readers Theatre.
Time Approximately 2 minutes
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"I See Dead People"
PURCHASE
Narrator addresses the audience very slowly and deliberately with an ominous tone.
Narrator: I…see…dead people. (Long pause. Let it sink in with the audience and
maybe confuse them a little, then after a little while again with the same
intensity) I…see…dead people. (Another pause shorter this time then
SCRIPT
suddenly pointing over the audience’s head to the back with alarm) Look!
There’s one now! (Pointing again in another direction with the same
alarm) And there! Look! There goes another one! (Pointing elsewhere)
And there! (Pointing again) And there! (Wide-eyed speaking directly to
audience) There are dead people…everywhere.
It’s scary how many dead people are walking around amongst us,
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beside us, with us, around us every day. They live down the street. They
walk down our halls. They sit at our tables and sleep in our homes.
They’re everywhere!
Noticing the audience’s confusion or disinterest.
What? You don’t see them?
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Pointing again some new direction into the audience.
Look! Sitting right beside you! Dead as a doornail. I know he looks like
he’s breathing…heart’s beating…eye’s blinking…but he’s not…living.
Not really. (Pointing to audience again) And her, there. She seems awake.
Almost attentive. Almost active. Almost alive. Almost.
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Looking around and then asserting again.
I…see…dead people. Men, women, children…able bodies, ready
minds, precious lives…wasted.
(Now getting to the point) Wasted chasing a selfish dream. Wasted
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chasing the wind. Wasted white-washing tombs. Dead people are
everywhere. Faithless lives living out faithless agendas. Soulless souls
ignoring sick sibling souls. Dreamers who dream of little more than
shiny objects and bigger breaks, swankier duds, y’know…all the stuff
you can’t take…when you’re dead. Kinda makes you dead already,
doesn’t it? (Very matter of fact and slightly alarmed) Scary.
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(Imploring) Where is the life in those who are living? Where is the
dreamer whose dream is less about getting and more about giving?
Where is the breath of God that has been breathed into the living? It’s
suffocating under the weight of not real living. That’s why I see dead
people everywhere. And that makes me so sad. It’s like going to a
funeral…everywhere…every day.
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"I See Dead People"
PURCHASE
Like in the beginning suddenly pointing over the audience’s head to the back with great
alarm and expressed fear.
Look! There goes another one now! (Pointing over their heads again in
another direction) And another one! (Pointing) And another one!
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(Pointing again) And still another one! (With similar intensity from the
beginning) I…see…dead people. (Imploringly) Please…make them go
away.
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