Theme: Searching for the newborn babe

Characters:
Leader
Asher
Innkeeper (nonspeaking)
Innkeeper’s Wife (nonspeaking)
Innkeeper’s Child (nonspeaking)
Joseph (nonspeaking)
Mary (nonspeaking)
Shepherds (two or three, nonspeaking)
Shopper 1
Shopper 2
Carolers (six to eight)
Child
Reader 1
Reader 2

Tone: Devotional, thoughtful, joyful ending

Setting/Props:
Appropriate biblical costumes
Simple stable scene
Papers
Shopping bags for Shoppers
Stools

Approximate time: 15-30 minutes

Production notes: Asher may use a hand microphone so he is free to move and can hold the microphone for other speakers. The Leader and Readers can speak from a lectern. Biblical costumes are needed for Asher, Joseph, Mary, the Shepherds, the Innkeeper, Innkeeper’s Wife, and Innkeeper’s Child.

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