Feb 16th Daily

Write the script for a skit exploring the Persian Wars from the Persian point-of-view.

Persian War:

Setting: Battle of Marathon

Characters:

                Persian:

·         Leader

·         Soldier 1

·         Soldier 2

Greek:

·         Leader

·         Soldier 1

·         Soldier 2

·         Towns people

Act 1:

Enter Persian Leader and Soldier 1

Persian Leader: My soldier, I am expecting greatness from you. We are outnumbering them 2-1. We should be able to easily make them surrender their city to us. 

Soldier 1: I feel the same way, sir. We have the largest empire at the time; there is no reason why we shouldn’t easily defeat them. They don’t even have an army. They will just have to force the townspeople into becoming ‘soldiers.’

Persian Leader: Yes, exactly. They have nothing on us. I have led this army to so many successes in my time; this will just be another one to add to my list. This little threat must be demolished before they become a much larger problem.

Soldier 1: Yes, sir. Let’s go get them.

Act 2:

Enter Persian Leader, Persian Soldiers, Greek Leader, and Greek Soldiers.

Persian Leader: (towards Greek Leader) We have come to defeat you and take over your empire.

Greek Leader: You have nothing on us, come soldiers.

(Greek and Persians Soldiers come and fighting begins)

Persian Soldier 1: This is so easy, we are just killing everyone; let’s just finish this one up.

Persian Soldier 2: Yes, let’s just get this done with and get them to surrender.

(All of a sudden, the Greek Leader and Soldiers and fighting much harder and killing many Persian soldiers)

Persian Leader: What is going on?

Persian Soldier 2: They are beating us. All of a sudden, they are fighting unlike any empire I have fought before. I think we might need to surrender and just go back to Persia. We can’t afford to lose anymore soldiers.

Persian Leader: We will give it one last shot, and if nothing works, we will surrender.

(Persian Soldiers give the battle one last, unsuccessful, shot)

Persian Soldier 1: Sir, we have given it our all, but it wasn’t good enough. Too many of our people are dying. We need to surrender.

Persian Leader: I agree, let’s go.

(Persians surrender, giving the Greek empire the victory. Persian Leader and Soldiers exit)