Characters (in order of appearance)
Narrator
Elizabeth
Mary
Samuel
Joseph
King 1
King 2
King 3

Props
Two chairs
Small table
Medium sized piece of black cloth, plain on one side, stars painted or pinned to other side
Two glasses
“Logs” for fire
Three crowns
Small piece of rope or cord

Notes
“Christmas: Before And After” is 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 i…