Albert Ickleberg & Nikolas Stein In The Lightning Sword

 DRAMATICA PERSONA

 

ALBERT ICKLEBERG:  a 19 year old American archaeology student studying in Greece and Nikolas Stein’s best friend.

 

NIKOLAS STEIN:  a 21 year old American archaeology student studying in Greece and Albert Ickleberg’s best friend.

 

ERIK EINBERG:  a 37 year old professor who teaches archaeology in Greece.

 

EUGENE ESSIL:  a greedy and wealthy Artifact collector from Germany.

 

EDGER FLAKES:  Eugene Essil’s Body guard.

 

SCENE:  Europe.

Act 1 Scene 1

[Near where the statue of Zeus used to stand with the other Students digging nearby.]

 

NIKOLAS STEIN: Hey Albert found anything yet?

ALBERT ICKLEBERG: No, not anything special anyway. What about you Nik?

[Moaning]

ERIK EINBERG: Nope nothing here either.

[Walking around watching the students]

ERIK EINBERG: How are my students doing today?

[Loudly]

NIKOLAS & ALBERT: Bored!

STUDENTS: Good!

[Curiously]

ERIK EINBERG: Why are you bored.

[Moaning]

ALBERT ICKLEBERG: There’s nothing interesting to dig up.

[Disappointed]

ERIK EINBERG: Well maybe you shouldn’t have studied archeology then.

[Complaining]

ALBERT ICKLEBERG: When I decided to do archeology for college I thought it would be at least a little more interesting than just digging all the time.

ERIK EINBERG: Well how about I tell you about a myth that applies to this general area then?

[Curiously]

ALBERT ICKLEBERG: What kind of myth is that?

ERIK EINBERG: Well the myth says that there is a lightning sword that was buried somewhere around this area by Zeus and is the key to finding his lightning bolt

[Excitedly]

NIKOLAS & ALBERT: Really? I hope we find it!

ERIK EINBERG: Well if you do I’m sure you’ll go on an adventure looking for Zeus’ lightning bolt.

[A lightning bolt hits the ground near the temple as rain starts falling]

ALBERT ICKLEBERG: And now rain, just lovely.

ERIK EINBERG: let’s pack up students!