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1. Let's Have A Fruitful Christmas Season

Drama

May Dembowski

... be kept in close with nothing to draw the eye away from the group at the table. Spoken lines do not require a lot of acting or projecting, especially if the personalities of the players match the skit's characters. There's room for spontaneity and improvisation for the sake of personalizing or customizing the message. Surprise, Folksy Options! If this skit is played for a group of women in a small church or community, the names of the characters may be changed to the actual names of the women in the cast ...

2. Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... you are.” A reminder to the sensitive Albert that not all people were as well off as he. Life in the parsonage was filled with music; both his father and his mother played the piano. Even at the age of five young Albert was able to improvise his own harmonies to the tunes of his favorite songs and hymns. When Schweitzer was 14 an amazing transformation occurred in his school work. Between Christmas and Easter that year he moved from the bottom of his class to somewhere near the top -- all because of the ...

3. Lying Makes It Easy

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... to chair] That was close. Jordan isn’t the sort of man to find out you just forgot him! [Phone rings again. This time ELISE is near enough to beat her MOTHER.] ELISE: Hello ... This is Elise ... [uncomfortably] Oh - yes, Sandra got here okay ... [improvising] Well, she - she’s in the tub, Mrs. Wilkerson. Trying out some new bubble bath my aunt sent me. Bubbles everywhere! Why don’t I take a message? ... Yes, ma’am ... after school tomorrow ... I’ll tell her ... Goodnight. [she hangs up with a ...

4. A Pilgrimage To Bethlehem

Matthew 3:1-12

Drama

Matthew Powell

... 1: And everyone went with them to the edge of the village and wished them well. Storyteller 1: As they finally began their pilgrimage, Gregory was in a cheerful mood. Soon he had forgotten all of his affairs at home and began to sing. (Ivan improvises a hymn) Storyteller 2: Ivan, however, was weighted down with household cares. Ivan: I wonder if I have forgotten to tell my son something important. I hope he remembers to plant the potatoes on time. Oh, I should have warned him more firmly about his ...

5. It Wasn’t The Hilton, You Know

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... 4 walk to the back of the church and then slowly begin walking down the center aisle.) Child 2 (Mary): (emoting heavily) Joseph. I can’t go any further. I’m so tired, and I’m thirsty, and I’ve got a pebble in my sandal. Director: Please. No improvisation. The play is running long as is. Child 2 (Mary): You said you wanted it real. I’m sure Mary said more than “I’m tired.” Director: But she didn’t have ten baby angels running up and down the aisles. Child 2 (Mary): Sorry. (back in character ...

6. Christmas: Before And After

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... simple, spare theater, designed to be performed by a small group of older youth with no set and only a handful of props that are moved around the stage by the cast, and used in different ways in each scene. It is based on improvisations by its original cast and, as such, welcomes adaptation and revision by each group that performs it. Though the narration provides a connecting thread, each individual scene can be performed independent of the others. So, churches could incorporate one scene into worship in ...

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