Posts tagged ‘drama’
The Trinity – In Their Own Words
In this drama script about the Trinity, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit speak for themselves and, in a quick moving and enjoyable way, give an all-age overview of something that is otherwise inexplicable – one God in three persons.
A Chocolate Tomb – an Easter drama script
In this Easter drama Ruby, a Christian TV cook is making Resurrection Rolls, a fun and chocolatey representation of Easter. Her co-presenter Alex is worried – is this real faith? Is it real cooking? Is the fun trivialising a deeply serious event? We are prompted to consider how serious our faith is as the argument grows and lead to a crazily alarming climax!
My Mother Is – a drama script for Mother’s Day
This touchingly honest Mother’s Day drama script is designed to be performed by children of varying ages and abilities with limited rehearsal. We all love our mothers, and in this script the children reveal the lovely things they wouldn’t normally say about their mothers – and reveal one or two other things too!
Sunday 4am – an Easter drama script
In this Easter drama script, Mary Magdalene agitatedly gets ready to set off for the tomb on that dark Sunday morning. As she does so, she tries to answer some of the questions about why she was a follower of this man Jesus in the first place. Was it the miracles? The teaching? Or something else?
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.
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God in Your Cupboard – a drama script for Lent
A drama script for Lent. Charlotte and Lucy want to give something up for Lent, but can’t agree what. Looking through the kitchen for inspiration seems like a really good idea – until God shows up in a cupboard and starts asking awkward questions! And the cupboard isn’t even clean!
St. Valentine’s Day Mascara – a drama script about love
A drama script for Valentine’s Day. Cara has sent out a large number of Valentine’s cards to increase her chances of finding love, but Izzy doesn’t think you can assess potential partners as if you are recruiting for a job. Meanwhile Naomi has received one Valentine’s card and is excited excited excited!
Heavenly Resolutions – a drama script about New Year and Kazoos
It’s New Year, and Charle and Jack are bored but trying to look cool – no need to mention the resolutions made in secret! When an unlikely pair of angels happen to pass by they realise that, while dramatic conversions or lifestyle changes are exciting, what heaven really rejoices in are the little, almost mundane things.
How to do drama #1 Why do drama?
Most churches realise that drama is a good thing to have in a service – but why? Is a bit of acting just something else to break up the monotony of the service or is there something good about getting people together to tell a story together in a visual and engaging way?
How to do drama
Are you in a drama group? Are you learning what it involves? Or perhaps you would like to be? How to do drama is an occasional series with the aim of helping the young drama group and its terrified actors, hopeful director and baffled script writer to survive in the exciting but frightening world of drama.
How to do drama #37 Rewriting the Bible
Churches have sensibilities. Jonah can negotiate with a fish, John can prefer garlic bread but Jesus can’t change his menu. How can Christian drama negotiate this?
Deep Roots – a drama script about the sower and the seeds
Weed is really not very bright, but as he pesters Corn to talk he discovers that Corn once had a really large family, and that his own relations were the neighbours from hell! The parable of the sower is told from the plants’ point of view to restore some of the original impact which can be lost in our urban society.
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?
A Little Light Map Reading – a drama script about moving on
Debbie doubts Jonathan’s map reading skills. Jonathan thinks Debbie is more interested in coffee breaks. They may not reach their destination – but are they both heading for the same place anyway? If you are considering your future direction, this script could help raise the topic humorously.
Moving With Intent – a drama script about worry, prayer and camping out
It’s 2am. Jonathan can hear noises outside the tent. He can also hear worries inside his head. Debbie just wants to sleep but he knows this is all her fault – she prayed about moving on! If you are troubled by your life taking a new direction this drama might help you to take a more lighthearted and maybe prayerful perspective.
In a Bad Way – a drama script about the good samaritan
There were three holy men – why did two walk on by? The parable of the Good Samaritan is reduced to its simplest as three men tell us who they are and why they did what they did. It’s not all black and white and leaves us with an uneasy question – what would we have done?
