THE LARCENY OF PERSEPHONE ft.
THE OLYMPIAN GODS AND GODDESSES Narrator 2 (Raissa): Demeter had a beautiful young daughter named Persephone,
Narrator 1 (Aira): Demeter was the sister of Zeus, and was the goddess who
watched over the fertile earth.
Zeus (Frix): Demeter, my sister. You will be the goddess of agriculture; also the
goddess of harvest, nature, the seasons and the cycle of life and death.
Demeter (Bambam): I hereby accept the responsibility, Zeus.
Zeus (Frix): You will take charge of all the crops in earth.
Narrator 2 (Raissa): So then, Demeter came to earth to teach men how to sow
grain and how to cultivate it.
Farmer 1 (Kaitlyn): Goddess Demeter! How should we plant our crops?
Demeter (Bambam): This is how you plant all your seeds. (taught them how to
plant)
Farmer 2 (Cezly): Oh, thank you goddess!
Narrator 1 (Aira): Greeks worshipped her because she helped them to gain their
foods. They even made statues of her, carrying bunches of grain and poppies in
her hand.
Narrator 2 (Raissa): When Demeter found that Persephone had been stolen from
her, she cried with grief.
Demeter (Bambam): Oh my dear, Persephone! Where are you, my child? My
child! My child! Persephone! Persephone!
Narrator 1 (Aira): She lighted torch and searched for her daughter 9 days and 9
nights without eating or drinking. Little did she know that Zeus had given
Persephone to Hades to be his queen, and that he had taken her to the
underworld.
Demeter (Bambam): Zeus! Zeus! Have you ordered all of these?
Zeus (Frix): I am sorry, my sister. I had giver your daughter to Hades to make
her as his queen.
Demeter (Bambam): But why haven't you told me? I am her mother! I have the
whom she loved very much. When the seed was dropped into the ground,
Persephone watched over it.
Persephone (Lhuer): Hello, there.
Farmer 1 (Kaitlyn): Hi, Persephone! Are you going to help us water all of these?
Persephone (Lhuer): Yes, of course!
Narrator 1 (Aira): One day, the young goddess was playing with number of
nymphs and was gathering flowers. Suddenly, a great chariot came rushing... the
poor girl was seized and placed in it, and carried away in spite of her cries.
Persephone (Lhuer): Help, help! Mother Demeter! Help!
Hades (Kyle): Don't you ever try to escape, young girl.
Poseidon (Mark): Your mother will not know about this.
Hades (Kyle): I will make you my wife, Persephone. I'll bring you to the
Underworld and live there with me from now on.
Persephone (Lhuer): Oh please, Hades! Let go of me!
Hades (Kyle): No, not now young girl. (laughs with Poseidon)
authority to know where she is!
Hera (Jewel): Hades had grown old but doesn't have a wife yet.
Athena (Claire): And we thought that your child will be fit for him.
Demeter (Bambam): No way! I will leave Olympus!
Athena (Claire): Noooo, Demeter!
Demeter (Bambam): Unless you will give my daughter back.
Narrator 1 (Aira): The gods had nothing to do with Demeter leaving the
Olympus. She hid herself on earth and mourned a long time for her daughter.
Narrator 2 (Raissa): One day, the goddess was sitting by the side of a well,
dressed in all black when for young children came to the well to drew water.
Young girl 1 (Artha): Oh, hello. Why are you alone here?
Young girl 2 (Faith): And you seemed so sad, didn't you?
Demeter (Bambam): My daughter had been taken away from me. (cries)
Young boy 1 (JB): Is she stolen from you?
Demeter (Bambam): Yes, child.
Young boy 2 (Joshua): Is it okay to you if we'll take you our home? It is very
dangerous being alone here.
Narrator 1 (Aira): They did not know of course, that this old woman was a
goddess; but they were all kind to her, and the mother kept her nurse to her
baby son.
Demeter (Bambam): This child is awesome. He reminds me with Persephone. I
am very fond of you.
Narrator 2 (Raissa): So, she wished to make him immortal like the gods, so that
he might never grow old or die. And at night, when everyone is asleep, she would
lay the child on fire to burn his mortal parts.
Mother (Katelyn): An insane woman! This is absurd! What are you doing to my
son? Are you out of your mind?! Why are you burning him?
Demeter (Bambam): Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt him. I just want to
make him immortal.
Mother (Katelyn): What?! Immortal?! Who are you to make him immortal? Only
gods can do that!
Narrator 2 (Raissa): By what just happened, broke the charm. But though
Demeter could not make the boy immortal after that, she did cause him to grow
up to be a great and good man.
Narrator 1 (Aira): While Demeter was searching for her daughter, there was no
one to look after the grain.
Farmer 1 (Kaitlyn): What happened? We plowed all day but there hasn't any
sprout coming out!
Farmer 2 (Cezly): We'll be in famine! This couldn't be!
Narrator 1 (Aira): Zeus saw this and...
Zeus (Frix): If Demeter will be gone this long... the race of men will die? What
should we do?
Apollo (Seng): We should see her and beg.
Narrator 2 (Raissa): Gods sent one after another to beg her to come back to
Mount Olympus.
Poseidon (Mark): Demeter, Olympus needs you.
Athena (Claire): Oh Demeter, pity us.
Hera (Jewel): Please, Demeter. We're begging you.
Apollo (Seng): There human race will be gone! There's no one to look after crops!
Demeter (Bambam): NOT UNTIL YOU GIVE BACK MY DAUGHTER!
Narrator 1 (Aira): So Zeus sent Hermes to the Underworld to get Persephone.
Hermes (Ian): Persephone, child! I'll bring you back to your mother!
Hades (Kyle): What are you doing, Hermes?!
Hermes (Ian): Zeus ordered to get Persephone back. You can do nothing about it
Hades, or else, Zeus and the other gods will lock you to Tartarus!
Hades (Kyle): Okay, okay. But here's the deal. My wife had eaten part of a love-
apple.
Persephone (Lhuer): I could only be given to my mother part of each year. I need
to be with my husband, Hades.
Hermes (Ian): Let's go, Persephone. Demeter is waiting for you. This long's
enough.
Narrator 1 (Aira): Persephone had been returned to Demeter.
Demeter (Bambam): My child!
Persephone: Mother, I missed you!
Narrator 2 (Raissa): For two-thirds of the year, Persephone was allowed to live
with her mother in the light and air of the upper world, but the remainder of
the time she was obliged to stay with Hades as queen of the underworld.
Narrator 1 (Aira): The Greeks thought that when the bright spring time came, it
was Persephone returning to her mother, and making all the earth glad for her
presence.
Narrator 2 (Raissa): But when the winter wind blew, and the plants and flowers John Bert Cruz - Young boy 1
died, she had returned underground, and the earth was left dark and dreary.
Joshua Chaneco - Young boy 2

CHARACTERS:
Keitlyn Montoya - Farmer 1

Frix Tungol - Zeus Cezly Mallari - Farmer 2

Bambam Pagcu - Demeter Aira Turla - Narrator 1

Lhuer Dizon - Persephone Raissa Labrador- Narrator 2

Kyle Quiambao - Hades Ian Adona - Hermes

Mark Valencia - Poseidon Katelyn Inocencio - Mother

Jewel Lumawig - Hera Peter Peralta - in charge of sound effects

Claire Lumbang - Athena

Seng Teoh - Apollo

Artha Villanueva - Young girl 1 Created by:

Frix Daniel C. Tungol 7 - Faith
Faith Deanne Campos - Young girl 2