Blood on
the snow
Light Christmas
drama story, narrated with props, audience sits in circle in the dark. 2001
This is the
story of the one eyed mountaineer Berg Schmit, here’s his other eye (pass round
wet marble or pickled onion).
One day he went
mountain walking with his friend of many years standing Rabin Ravine. It was
winter and snowy (pass snow/wet/ice cubes).
One thing Berg
always did when going out was to take his small pet rat called Nibbles (pass
mouse).
They climbed
higher and higher through the forest (pass fern) and past mountain cattle and
sheep (sound of sheep/cows-toy), towards the shelf ridge which they could clearly
see through the binoculars (pass bins).
Now unknown to Berg,
Rabin was heavily in debt over a business transaction. He was so desperate, and
knowing of Berg’s wealth, and that he lived alone, he decided there and then to
kill him. He would then impersonate Berg, take his funds from the bank account
and no one would know.
By now they were
walking across a crevasse and Rabin seized the moment by stabbing him in the back
of the neck with the end of a ski pole (pass ski pole). Berg fell forward in
agony and Rabin then hurriedly picking up a rock repeatedly rained blows on his
head, rendering him unconscious (pass rock).He thought he was dead. Rabin had
to hide the body so that he would never be found and so pushed him down into
the crevasse. Little did he know however was that Berg was alive and lodged on
a ledge out of sight 20 feet down. After a couple of hours he came too and
immediately took some survival tablets (pass tablets). He knew he had to get out soon as the wound
to his head was becoming gangrenous and smelt awful (pass stilton cheese). Even
Nibbles was getting interested, he was so hungry. His fingers were hard to the
core (pass carrot).
Then he thought
Nibbles was his only chance and decided to tie a note to him with the location.
He sent him up the crevasse and was gone. Nibbles had to find human help, he
knew that. Walkers were often passing by this popular route and Nibbles hadn’t
gone far when he bumped into someone (pass mouse with note).
Help soon arrived
at the top of the crevasse and Berg could signal his location with his torch
(flash torch).The rescuers lay down a rope (pass rope) and Berg was quickly pulled
clear. One of the rescuers had a walkie talkie and called in a red cross
helicopter with doctor(radio talk). The doctor immediately gave Berg a morphine
injection to ease the pain (pass loaded syringe of water) and he was then transported
to Innsbruck Hospital.
It was decided
immediately to operate and Berg could smell the clinical smell of the operating
theatre (pass TCP/Surgical spirit on cotton wool) whilst the surgeons were gowning
up (pass plastic gloves). The operation was risky and surgeons had to pull the
skin away from the brain, exposing the brain itself (pass part cauliflower/cabbage). They completed
by using a stapler and scissors (pass stapler and scissors).
Berg was in the
recovery room and was able to speak for the first time-life was coming back. He
told the nurse in attendance everything about Rabin who was later arrested
(pass handcuffs) and convicted of attempted murder……
….Oh but sorry
to say Nibbles didn’t survive and died from frost bite (pass mouse).
What is the
moral of the story? Don’t take your pets for granted, you never know when they
might come in, however small, and may even save your life .
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