The First Last Supper.
Season of Lent .... The First Last Supper .... Matthew 26:26-29: The Last Supper .... Jesus in the bread and wine.
Puppets: Barnabas and Lorenzo
People: 2 kids to hold up blanket; five or six kids to be the disciples posing in Da Vinci’s The Last Supper; Kids
Props: White sheet, as a tablecloth for puppet bench; communion cup and bread plate; biblical dress for kids, as disciples in Da Vinci painting; bed sheet or blanket; copy of Da Vinci’s painting: The Last Supper, if available
[Arrange to have five or six kids in disciple dress hiding behind altar, ready to come out. Also arrange to have two kids or adults to hold up the sheet]
[Barnabas and Lorenzo are up front; the tablecloth and communion elements are in the prop bag. The copy of the painting is propped up so everyone can see it. The disciple kids are hiding, and the drape holders are sitting up front, ready to go]
Barnabas: Buenos dias boys and girls. How is everybody today?
Lorenzo: Hola ninos. You all look marvelous this morning,
simply marvelous.
Barnabas: So. Lorenzo. Are you excited about today’s
amazing attempt?
Lorenzo: Attempt?
Barnabas: It’s that time of year again.
Lorenzo: What time?
Barnabas: The time when we present a living reenactment of Da Vinci’s famous painting of The Last Supper, in honor of…The Last Supper.
Lorenzo: But there are only two of us. [Counting] Uno, Dos. We can’t enact a whole painting of Jesus and the twelve disciples, with just the two of us.
Barnabas: We can if we move fast.
Lorenzo: All right. But I've got a bad feeling about this. [Prop assistants hold up blanket in front of puppeteers; then drop it, revealing Barnabas and Lorenzo striking a Da Vinci pose. Now speaking to each other out of the sides of their mouths] Aye carumba. The only amazing thing here is how much this doesn’t look like Da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper.
Barnabas: You’re right.
Lorenzo: So what do we do now?
Barnabas: We start talking about something else quick, so they’ll
stop thinking about how embarrassing this looks and start thinking about something else.
Lorenzo: Are they really that easy to distract? [Barnabas nods]
OK. [Start humming, filling a long pause. Eventually look over and shrug] I know. Let’s talk about if Jesus’ disciples knew that he was dyslexic.
Barnabas: If they knew that he was what?
Lorenzo: You know. Dyslexic. That condition that lots of people have, when they read, when the letters look like they’re backwards or reversed and stuff. After all, Jesus was always going around reversing words: you know, saying that small things were actually big things. And how the first would be last, and the last, first.
Barnabas: That’s not dyslexia…..It’s wisdom.
Lorenzo: [Give Barnabas a long stare] And Jesus was doing it again in today’s Bible story, switching first and last, on that evening, near the end, that we call the Last Supper.
Barnabas: What?
Lorenzo: You know. The story of the Last Supper. But it wasn’t really the last supper. It was the first supper, the first communion, the first Eucharist, when Jesus ate with his disciples, and he told them to continue to eat bread and drink wine together like that, to remember him. He said last, but it was first. Viola: dyslexia.
Barnabas: [Aside] (That should be voila: dyslexia).
Lorenzo: [Aside] (Sorry, I’m dyslexic.) Anyway: voila dyslexia.
Barnabas: But, but, but…it wasn’t just the first supper; it was also the last supper, the last time Jesus ate with his disciples before he was taken by the Romans, and crucified. The Last Supper. In other words, Jesus was not dyslexic.
Lorenzo: Hmm. The first supper and the last supper. I wonder if you can be both dyslexic and not dyslexic—at the same time? Maybe that’s what Jesus was. What’s the word for that?
Barnabas: God.
Lorenzo: [Pause] Oh. [Pause] God. As in omni-lexic. All words. As in “In the beginning was the Word.” I get it. Jesus. As in Jesus in the bread and the wine and the words: “take, eat, this is my body, broken for you. This is my blood, shed for you.” The word made flesh.
Barnabas: Which gives me a better idea for our Last Supper reenactment. We just needed more flesh. [Prop assistants hold up blanket. Quickly spread white sheet, as tablecloth on puppet bench, then put communion elements in middle; hiding kids come out from behind altar in costume, kneeling behind the bench and strike a pose. Assistants drop blanket. Lorenzo and Barnabas move around over to the side, looking on.]
Lorenzo: I don’t know if it looks exactly like the painting or not, but at least this time Jesus is there. In the bread and wine. Right in the middle. With his disciples. The kids. Right where he belongs.
Barnabas: [Praying] Amen! Come Lord Jesus, we’re you’re guests. Let these gifts to us be blest. Thank you Lord for Communion, for the first, and last, and lasting supper. Amen.
All: [Including the posing kids and puppets] Now, is this a great day, or what?
Puppets: Barnabas and Lorenzo
People: 2 kids to hold up blanket; five or six kids to be the disciples posing in Da Vinci’s The Last Supper; Kids
Props: White sheet, as a tablecloth for puppet bench; communion cup and bread plate; biblical dress for kids, as disciples in Da Vinci painting; bed sheet or blanket; copy of Da Vinci’s painting: The Last Supper, if available
[Arrange to have five or six kids in disciple dress hiding behind altar, ready to come out. Also arrange to have two kids or adults to hold up the sheet]
[Barnabas and Lorenzo are up front; the tablecloth and communion elements are in the prop bag. The copy of the painting is propped up so everyone can see it. The disciple kids are hiding, and the drape holders are sitting up front, ready to go]
Barnabas: Buenos dias boys and girls. How is everybody today?
Lorenzo: Hola ninos. You all look marvelous this morning,
simply marvelous.
Barnabas: So. Lorenzo. Are you excited about today’s
amazing attempt?
Lorenzo: Attempt?
Barnabas: It’s that time of year again.
Lorenzo: What time?
Barnabas: The time when we present a living reenactment of Da Vinci’s famous painting of The Last Supper, in honor of…The Last Supper.
Lorenzo: But there are only two of us. [Counting] Uno, Dos. We can’t enact a whole painting of Jesus and the twelve disciples, with just the two of us.
Barnabas: We can if we move fast.
Lorenzo: All right. But I've got a bad feeling about this. [Prop assistants hold up blanket in front of puppeteers; then drop it, revealing Barnabas and Lorenzo striking a Da Vinci pose. Now speaking to each other out of the sides of their mouths] Aye carumba. The only amazing thing here is how much this doesn’t look like Da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper.
Barnabas: You’re right.
Lorenzo: So what do we do now?
Barnabas: We start talking about something else quick, so they’ll
stop thinking about how embarrassing this looks and start thinking about something else.
Lorenzo: Are they really that easy to distract? [Barnabas nods]
OK. [Start humming, filling a long pause. Eventually look over and shrug] I know. Let’s talk about if Jesus’ disciples knew that he was dyslexic.
Barnabas: If they knew that he was what?
Lorenzo: You know. Dyslexic. That condition that lots of people have, when they read, when the letters look like they’re backwards or reversed and stuff. After all, Jesus was always going around reversing words: you know, saying that small things were actually big things. And how the first would be last, and the last, first.
Barnabas: That’s not dyslexia…..It’s wisdom.
Lorenzo: [Give Barnabas a long stare] And Jesus was doing it again in today’s Bible story, switching first and last, on that evening, near the end, that we call the Last Supper.
Barnabas: What?
Lorenzo: You know. The story of the Last Supper. But it wasn’t really the last supper. It was the first supper, the first communion, the first Eucharist, when Jesus ate with his disciples, and he told them to continue to eat bread and drink wine together like that, to remember him. He said last, but it was first. Viola: dyslexia.
Barnabas: [Aside] (That should be voila: dyslexia).
Lorenzo: [Aside] (Sorry, I’m dyslexic.) Anyway: voila dyslexia.
Barnabas: But, but, but…it wasn’t just the first supper; it was also the last supper, the last time Jesus ate with his disciples before he was taken by the Romans, and crucified. The Last Supper. In other words, Jesus was not dyslexic.
Lorenzo: Hmm. The first supper and the last supper. I wonder if you can be both dyslexic and not dyslexic—at the same time? Maybe that’s what Jesus was. What’s the word for that?
Barnabas: God.
Lorenzo: [Pause] Oh. [Pause] God. As in omni-lexic. All words. As in “In the beginning was the Word.” I get it. Jesus. As in Jesus in the bread and the wine and the words: “take, eat, this is my body, broken for you. This is my blood, shed for you.” The word made flesh.
Barnabas: Which gives me a better idea for our Last Supper reenactment. We just needed more flesh. [Prop assistants hold up blanket. Quickly spread white sheet, as tablecloth on puppet bench, then put communion elements in middle; hiding kids come out from behind altar in costume, kneeling behind the bench and strike a pose. Assistants drop blanket. Lorenzo and Barnabas move around over to the side, looking on.]
Lorenzo: I don’t know if it looks exactly like the painting or not, but at least this time Jesus is there. In the bread and wine. Right in the middle. With his disciples. The kids. Right where he belongs.
Barnabas: [Praying] Amen! Come Lord Jesus, we’re you’re guests. Let these gifts to us be blest. Thank you Lord for Communion, for the first, and last, and lasting supper. Amen.
All: [Including the posing kids and puppets] Now, is this a great day, or what?
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