Room at the Inn
Luke 2:1-7
Drama
by Lois Anne DeLong

Characters (in order of appearance)
Narrator
Innkeeper
Innkeeper’s Wife
Angel 1
Mary
Angel 2
Joseph
Angel 3
Shepherd 1
Innkeeper’s Daughter
Shepherd 2
Other Shepherds (nonspeaking)

Props
Chair
Brush
Lantern
Manger
Baby doll

Notes
With only eleven speaking parts, many of the roles are only a line or two in length, and a very basic set, “Room At The Inn” is a fairly simple play to stage. The set consists of one chair, placed stage left, facing out. A lantern is placed at the end of stage left.

(Narrator stands at a lectern placed upstage right.)

Narrator: On an unusually quiet street in the town of Bethlehem sat a small inn that had seen better days. It had only six rooms for rent. A small barn stood behind it, housing three cows, an old horse, and a dozen or so sheep. Doves nested in th…

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