A Drama for Good Friday

[This Good Friday drama can be approached in two ways: Ideally you have talented people in your church who will memorize their parts and perform in costume. This would be powerful and memorable. Otherwise, it could be presented as Readers' Theater, with a narrator and actors simply reading their lines. Suggested hymns to play softly in the background during readings and monologues:

1. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Simon Peter)

2. Just As I Am, Without One Plea (Samaritan woman)

3. There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood (Pilate)

4. Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross (Nicodemus) It is assumed that the pastor will be the narrator.]

Narrator: Author Garrison Keillor is best known for his Lake Wobegon tales. They are a pleasant exercise in nostalgia. On one occasion …