Cast
Storyteller
Willibald Krautman
Saint Peter
Wife

(Storyteller sits or stands off to one side. Willibald stands at center. Wife sits facing away from the audience until she "enters." Saint Peter sits until his "entrance," when he stands on his chair)

Storyteller: Willibald Krautman and Christmas - these two things belonged together like a door and its hinges, like a clock and its face, like a bell and its tower. The whole year long, Willibald Krautman thought about, dreamt about, and prepared things for Christmas. During his life, Willibald had carved more than 1,000 Nativity figures, he had built more than sixty manger scenes, and he had attended every cribmakers' conference in Innsbruck in the Austrian Tyrol. Often his soul would inflate itself and whisper into his ear,

Willibald:…