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Christmas - Joseph, monologue. Joseph reflects on how the nights have not been silent since the birth of Jesus, and remembers the night he was born
JOSEPH
Enter Joseph with a cup of tea & a baby monitor.
Settles down into an arm chair, with a table next to him, putting down the tea & the monitor.
"Jesus is finally asleep. I had to tell the story of Daniel in the Lions' Den five times this evening. The 4th time I told it, I changed it to tigers in the jungle, so he made me tell it again, to get it right!
Mary says I should tell Jesus a nicer, less scary story, but he doesn't seem to be frightened. Mary says that I should tell about what happened the night he was born, and about everything that has happened to our family until we settled here in Egypt. That's the good thing about being a carpenter - where there's wood, there's work, I always say.
Anyhow, when we arrived in Bethlehem, all of my family's homes were completely full, so I remembered that the Innkeeper is my Father's distant cousin. I explained this to him, and told him that Mary was pregnant, and he kindly gave us the stable for a bit of private space.
We knew the journey was going to be hard work for Mary, but I didn't expect her to go into labour straightaway!
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