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Centurion

(To the crowd.) “Move back! Move back! Do you want to catch the blood dripping from their bodies? Do you like the smell of death? Vermin.

(To the soldiers at the foot of the cross) Hey! You! Soldiers! Get back here and stand your duty. Or do you want to join these men on a cross of your own? What were you doing up there? Gambling for his garments? What, you don’t have enough rags in your house that you need some prophet’s bloody cloak? Get back to your posts!

(To himself) I’ll never understand why every crucifixion draws these crowds. What is it about someone else’s death that fascinates people? Do they like to see someone else suffer? Does it make their miserable little lives seem more tolerable? Or are they so scared of their own deaths that they come here hoping to see a glimpse of the eternal? Hoping to see that the next life holds more for them than this one?

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The centurion in charge of the crucifixion is giving orders to his men. The man on the center cross effects him in a strange way. This man is different.

He is deeply moved by the events even though he has been in charge of innumerable deaths.

Monologue.

Cast -- Centurion
Set - At the foot of the cross
Cost -- $3.00
Running Time -- 6 minutes

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