Theme: A parable of unfruitfulness.

Characters:
Narrator 
Five solo voices (Solo 3 doubles as Isaiah and Solo 5 doubles as Jesus).

Narrator: Jesus left the house and sat by the lakeside.

Solo 1: To enjoy the peace of the waves,

Solo 2: Away from the city,

Solo 3: Away from the crowds,

Solo 4: Peace, by the waters.

Narrator: But such crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there. The people all stood on the beach, and he told them many things in parables.

Solo 4: They found him,

Solo 2: Surrounded him,

Solo 3: And begged for a story.

Solo 1: Give us a story!

Solo 4: Make us want to live!

Solo 3: Entertain us!

Narrator: So Jesus said to them:

Solo 5: Imagine a Sower going out to sow.

Solo 2: A man like me?

Solo 4: A common man?

Solo 1: A man of the soil,…