Posts tagged ‘Christmas’
Happy Christmas
White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin – a sentimental atheist song about Christmas. It’s very good really, if a little odd. Discuss.
Satnavitivity
Ever wondered why the wise men were late to the birth of Jesus? Satnavitivity reveals the simple truth.
Quickfire Nativity
We love funny videos. We love the Christmas story. We love it when they go together.
Sheepville – a Christmas drama script
In this Christmas drama script, the shepherds are busy – busy finding food, busy auditing the sheep, busy playing Sheepville on the GameThing. So when they are visited by the shiny guy, he has a hard time convincing them that there might be something more important to be doing tonight…
Help – Christmas is coming!
Like everyone else we at DramatisDei are forced to think about Christmas sooner than we want to. Also like everyone else we want to complain about it. Moan moan moan.
Epiphany, the BBC Nativity and the Star of Bethlehem
The Epiphany is when we celebrate the Magi visiting the new-born king. But what was this star they followed? The BBC Nativity suggested a conjunction of planets. Have they got it right?
Epiphany and the walls look bare
Epiphany is the traditional ending to Christmas, but as the pretty lights and colourful decorations get stowed away for eleven months the walls look kind of bare…
Have an ethical Christmas!
Could ethical gifts give you a new perspective this Christmas? As the economic conditions continue to looks gloomy and the factories of southern China struggle to cater for all our crazy advertisement-fuelled whims this festive season, the ethical gift catalogues blossom. Here is a pick.
Inspired by television
The ideas and inspiration for writing can come from anywhere – our Script of the Month “The Hotel Inspector” came from necessity – and television.
The pantomime of Christmas stamps
Over the past few years a manufactured and misplaced Christian outrage has dampened the happiness of the modern Christmas tradition of the Christmas Stamp.
The Hotel Inspector – a drama script for Christmas
This Hotel Inspector is not happy! Visiting the inn at Bethlehem on that starry night should have been a pleasure, but the shepherds are smelly, the wise men are too exotic and as for putting a young couple in the stable and the light and noise from overhead – something is seriously wrong with the business plan here!
The Other Christmas Story – a drama script
This is a humorous Christmas script for all ages with the possibility of improvisation and rowdy audience interaction. In a season of stories (James Bond on television, Santa books at bedtime) this asks the audience: which is the real Christmas story?
