Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?

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Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?

10 Minute Play, Drama  /  3any gender (adult)

This short play, set in "another place," is part of Thornton Wilder's Playlets: Short, Short Plays for 3-5 Persons.

Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3any gender (adult)
  • Duration
    Duration
    10 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Faith-based
  • Suggested Use
    • Competition or audition material
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences
Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?

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Summary

“Another place... Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before SATAN that CHRIST also came among them...”

Satan, Christ and Judas share the stage in this struggle between good and evil –and forgiveness. Who will win this cosmic battle?

In a bold stroke, Wilder adds a new character to the ancient story of Job when none other than Christ enters the stage, after “going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it.” The playlet thus revamps the scene in Chapter I of the Biblical story of Job wherein the Lord offers Job as an example of a man who was “perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” In Wilder’s version Christ moves from the New Testament to the Old for a tug-of-war with Satan over Judas, described by Satan as his servant, unique on earth, “an evil and faithless man,” and one who fears Satan and has turned away from God.

This short play is included in the collection Thornton Wilder's Playlets: Short, Short Plays for 3-5 Persons.

History
The play, written in 1924, and first published in The Angel That Troubled the Waters, is inspired by Job 1:8: “And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?”
Cast Attributes

SATAN

CHRIST

JUDAS

  • Time Period Greek; Roman & Biblical
  • Setting Another place.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes, Period Costumes
  • Duration 10 minutes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

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    Thornton Wilder: It's Time

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Authors

Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at Yale and Princeton, was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works explore the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one ...

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