This document provides the script for a play about the life of Saint Cecilia to be performed on November 23rd. It is divided into two acts. In act one, angels visit Cecilia in a dream and prophesy her marriage to her true love Valerian. She asks Valerian to convert to Christianity, which he does. In act two, Cecilia and Valerian are captured and martyred for their faith by Roman soldiers, but their souls are taken to heaven by angels.

1. Saint Cecilia, a play in two acts
by
teacher: Patricia Von Wolfschoon
To be presented on November 23rd during the assembly. Practices will
take place every Thursday, please study your parts.

2. Characters:
St. Cecilia, a noble Roman lady
Valerian, her fiancé a noble Roman lad
St. Cecilia´s mother, a noble Roman lady
St. Cecilia´s father, a noble Roman fellow
Angel A
Angel B
Angel C
Angel D
Soldier 1
Soldier 2
Captain
Narrator 1
Narrator 2

3. Act I
Narrator 1: To commemorate the day of musicians, we will listen to a play about the Musicians Saint´s life.
Narrator 2: The following play is based on events of the life of Saint Cecilia, patroness of the musicians;
some characters and details were real, others were added for theatrical purposes.
Narrator 1: In Cecilia’s dream, two Angels from heaven arrive to her room.
(S. Cecilia is sitting in the center as sleeping. Two angels A and B enter and place each other at either side
of Cecilia, spreading their wings).
Angel A: Wake up Cecilia!
Angel B: Wake up!
Angel A: Wake up!
St. Cecilia: What´s going on? Who are you? (Looking right and left to the Angels).
Angel A: We´re the Angels from heaven
Angel B: We´re here to tell your fate.
Angel A: Hush, hush, Cecilia
Angel B: Hush, hush
Angel A: Hush, hush
Angel A: Your life will be short and you will suffer a great deal.
Angel B: But you will find true love.
Angel A: You have been chosen by God! After a tragic death, the gates of heaven will be opened for you and
your kin.
Angel B: Your husband will follow; then, your parents. God and the Angels will listen to your Celestial
Music.
St. Cecilia: You must be wrong, I´m not even married!
Angel A: Hush, hush, Cecilia
Angel B: Hush, hush.

4. Angel A: Hush, hush.
(The Angels leave spreading their wings).
(S. Cecilia wakes up)
(Cecilia´s mother and father arrive at the scene; they place each other at either side of her).
C. father: Cecilia, Cecilia wake up, we have great news!
C. mother: Wonderful news! You will be married tomorrow to a great man: Valerian, a young, educated,
noble and handsome Roman gentleman!
St. Cecilia: Oh dear! No!
C. father: What are you saying young lady?
S. Cecilia: I mean, Oh, who father?
C. father: Valerian, last Caesar’s nephew from the Augustan house, a great and wealthy fellow.
C. mother: I´m so excited! I can cry! Don´t you worry about the wedding details, you will be surrounded by
the best flower garlands and I´ll design the dress, we´ll have musicians and dancers! I´ll start planning at
once.
(Her mother and father leave the scene in a hurry).
St. Cecilia: Angels from heaven please come and help me out! I´m in total distress. (Cecilia cries).
(The Angels arrive spreading their wings and placing each other at either side of Cecilia).
Angel A: Hush, hush, Cecilia
Angel B: Hush, hush.
Angel A: Hush, hush.
St. Cecilia: Angels please save me. I´m going to be married to a man I´ve never met.
(The Angels console her by touching her head).
Angel A: Oh dear!
Angel B: Hush, hush.

5. Angel A: Hush, hush.
Angel B: The perfect husband will be sent for you.
St. Cecilia: How will I know if he´s the one? If he´s my true love?
Angel A: When you get to know him, ask him to go to Via Appia and be baptized by the Pope of Rome.
Angel B: If his faith is strong enough, when he comes back, he will see us standing next to you and crowing
you with a garland of flowers.
St. Cecilia: And if not, what am I supposed to do?
Angel A: Hush, hush, Cecilia
Angel B: Hush, hush.
Angel A: Hush, hush.
(The Angels leave the scene).
Act II
(Valerian, Cecilia, her mother and father).
Narrator 1: On the day of the wedding, Cecilia goes to a corner and sings to God.
(A group of dancers start dancing, then, they leave).
Valerian: What a beautiful lady, she looks like a marble statue.
C. father: Go talk to her!
Valerian: I don´t know what to say.
(C father pushes him towards her).
Valerian: Hello, my name is Valerian and I come from the Augustan house, you must be Cecilia.
St. Cecilia: Mother is he Valerian?
C. mother: Look how gorgeous, go tell him something!
(C. mother pushes her towards Valerian).
St. Cecilia: Nice to meet you, I´m Cecilia, jejejeje… (Looking at her mother with anger).

6. Well, and…. Did you like the dance, I was the choreographer.
Valerian: I don´t know much about dancing, but I like to read and hunt and sometimes, I go to meetings at
the Roman Forum, I´m a good politician.
(C. Father applause)
C. Father: Hello everyone, I would like to make a toast for the bride and groom (he raises his cup).
C. mother: Congratulations young couple, blessings for you and may you live 100 years and have 13 kids.
(St. Cecilia and Valerian look at each other, shy and smile).
Narrator 2: After the ceremony ends, Cecilia explains to Valerian that the only way for them to be married
is if he goes to the Appian way and gets baptized by the Pope of Rome and then, if he sees the Angels he will
become her husband.
Narrator 1: Valerian goes as fast as he can, ridding the best horse from his stable.
(Valerian, St. Cecilia)
Valerian: Alright, I´m back, but I can´t see any Angels.
(The Angels C and D enter and place each other at either side of Cecilia).
Angel C: Hush, hush, Valerian.
Angel D: Hush, hush.
Angel C: Hush, hush.
Angel D: We´re the Angels from heaven.
Angel C: We´re here to tell you the truth. There is only one God. Believe this and you´ll go to heaven.
Angel D: Your life will be short, but we will open heaven´s gates.
Angel C: In the afterlife Cecilia, you and her family will live happily ever after.
Angel D: Listening to celestial music and chanting with us.
Narrator 1: Valerian embraces Cecilia, but one day her servant finds out they became Christians and tells
the Roman Captain. The furious Captain decides to capture them.
Narrator 2: two Roman soldiers stand at the frontier.

7. (Soldier 1 and 2)
Soldier 1: I´m a Roman soldier.
Soldier 2: I´m a Roman soldier.
Soldier 1: I´m strong and powerful.
Soldier 2: I´m a brave and fearless.
Soldier 1: I don´t fear the enemy.
Soldier 2: I will crash them, smash them.
Soldier 1: I want waaaaaaar!
Soldier 2: I will fiiiiiight!
Soldier 1: I´m a hero. (Yelling)
Soldier 2: I´m a hero. (Yelling), wait, who told you so?
Soldier 1: My mother, of course and who told youuuuuuu?
Soldier 2: Your mother! Bah! My girlfriend told me so.
Soldier 1: Your girlfriend? That silly old cow!
Soldier 2: Who are you calling an old cow?
(They push each other)
Soldier 2: Your mother is a woman, what do women know about war!
(Soldier # 1 pushes soldier #2 and start fighting with their swords).
Captain: Stop this nonsense at once, you bloody fools! You´re supposed to defend the frontiers.
Soldier 2: Eh, uhmm
(Soldier 1 whistles and looks to the back).
Captain: Well anyway, I came to tell your assignment for today. There is a noble Roman woman, your duty
is to execute her and her husband at once.
Soldier 1: A woman
Soldier 1: What?

8. Soldier 1: I don’t fight women, less if there Roman.
Soldier 2: There not warriors, they´re too delicate, thin and pale.
Captain: I´m not here to ask your opinion, She´s a Christian and Christianity is like a
disease, it´s spreading very fast and we need to annihilate them, before we end living in
their territory.
Soldier 1: Blah! We are Romans and Romans are invincible!
Soldier 2: Insuperable!
Captain: Go and get her and stop talking soldiers!
(The soldiers march following the captain towards Cecilia).
(Cecilia appears and places herself in the center of the stage and the 2 angels at either side
of her).
St. Cecilia: God from heaven please give us strength and force.
Angel A and C: Hush, hush Cecilia.
Angel B and D: Hush, hush.
Angel A and B: Hush, hush.
(The captain arrives first and the soldiers follow him marching).
Soldier 1 and 2: one, two, one two, (keeping the march beat).
(The soldiers capture Cecilia and the captain strikes 3 times in her throat).
(Valerian comes screams: Cecilia are you alright? and fights the soldiers, but they strike
him in his belly and dies).
(Angels A and B take Cecilia and Angels C and D take Valerian to heaven).
Angel A: This is heaven´s gate you´re welcome!
Angel B, C and D: we have been waiting for you!

9. The End