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 – foraging, auditing, playing Sheepville on the GameThing. So when they are visited by the shiny dude, he has a hard time convincing them that there might be something more important…
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
In this wonderful Christmas monologue, the Nativity is seen from a whole new angle as a hotel inspector reports on a series of very strange events at certain inn in Bethlehem on one particular starry night.
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?
