Samson and Delilah: Drama Skit: The Barber of Sorek
Abby Rosser
North Boulevard Church of Christ
Murfreesboro, TN

Characters:
Samson
Delilah
Several Philistines
Narrator
Sound person to operate the CD player

Props/Costumes:
CD and CD player
Bible costumes
Samson muscle shirt
Beard and wig for Samson
Chair and desk or small table
Basket holding:
• Scissors
• Seven strings
• Seven ropes
• Loom with threads woven into it
Bag of money

Setting: Some Philistines approach Delilah, Samson’s latest girlfriend, and ask her to help them trap him. She agrees to help them. Every time Samson tells her how to take away his strength, and she unsuccessfully tries that method, music from “The Barber of Seville” plays in the background. There is a chair, desk or small table, and a basket on stage.

(Delilah is standing on one side of the stage. As the narrator reads the following, Philistines approach her with a bag of money and mime a conversation with her.)

Narrator: Samson, the mighty warrior-judge, fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. The Philistines were tired of his angry tirades and they went to her. They asked her to find out the secret of his great strength. They wanted to overpower him and tie him up. They each promised her eleven hundred shekels of silver in return for her help.

(The Philistines exit one side and Samson enters from the other side and sits in the chair.)

Delilah: Samson, tell me the secret of your strength and how you can be tied up.

Samson: If I were tied up with seven new bowstrings that have not yet been dried, I would become as weak as anyone else.

(Samson lays his head on the desk and falls asleep.)

(Start CD. Delilah takes strings out of the basket and “ties” him up.)

(Stop the CD as the Philistines enter.)

(The Philistines rush in.)

Delilah: Samson! Samson! Wake up! The Philistines have come to capture you!

(Samson stands and easily shakes off the strings.)

(The Philistines turn and sadly walk away.)

Delilah: Samson, tell me the secret of your strength and how you can be tied up.

Samson: If I were tied up with brand-new ropes that had never been used, I would become as weak as anyone else.

(Samson lays his head on the desk and falls asleep.)

(Start CD. Delilah takes ropes out of the basket and “ties” him up.)

(Stop the CD as the Philistines enter.)

(The Philistines rush in.)

Delilah: Samson! Samson! Wake up! The Philistines have come to capture you!

(Samson stands and easily shakes off the ropes.)

(The Philistines turn and sadly walk away.)

Delilah: Samson, tell me the secret of your strength and how you can be tied up.

Samson: If you were to weave the seven braids of my hair into the fabric on your loom and tighten it with the loom shuttle, I would become as weak as anyone else.

(Samson lays his head on the desk and falls asleep.)

(Start CD. Delilah takes the loom out of the basket and weaves his braid into the threads.)

(Stop the CD as the Philistines enter.)

(The Philistines rush in.)

Delilah: Samson! Samson! Wake up! The Philistines have come to capture you!

(Samson stands and easily pulls his hair out.)

(The Philistines turn and sadly walk away.)

Delilah: You’ve made fun of me three times now, and you still haven’t told me what makes you so strong! Now tell me the secret of your strength and how you can be tied up.

Samson: My hair has never been cut, for I was dedicated to God as a Nazirite from birth. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as anyone else.

(Samson lays his head on the desk and falls asleep.)

(Start CD. Delilah takes the scissors out of the basket and pretends to cut his hair. DO NOT cut the wig. Pull the wig and beard off of Samson.)

(Stop the CD as the Philistines enter.)

(The Philistines rush in.)

Delilah: Samson! Samson! Wake up! The Philistines have come to capture you!

(Samson stands and the Philistines pull him away. One of the Philistines hand Delilah a bag of money.)

Narrator: When he woke up, he thought, “I will do as before and shake myself free.” But he didn’t realize the Lord had left him.
(Everyone exits except the narrator.)
Narrator: So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and forced to grind grain in the prison. But before long, his hair began to grow back and he vowed to take revenge on the Philistines…
(Start CD as the Narrator exits and audience applauds.)


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CreativeCarol is not the author of this material. This material was written by Abby Rosser.