Monday Rewrite

Cast: Stage Manager (SM); Flo & Doris (two cleaners); Innkeeper (IK) & Wife; 2 Rats; 3 Kings; 3 Shepherds; Dog & Donkey; Mary and Joseph SM      Right you lot get …

This reading can involve the audience if you teach the given responses before delivering it. Shepherds – “Ooh aarr!”    Angel – Flap hands as if wings/or pint to halo and …

A little festive reading/sketch for a narrator (N) and a group of readers. There are 9 readers here, but you could do it with less. N. Right. Drama group – up …

When God appeared they expected a warrior, An angel of light, and a king. Not a suffering servant, rejected and scorned – No one expected him. A fodder trough, a stable …

A reading or sketch for Advent or Christmas Words by Chris Whitfield Mime by Dave Hopwood Begin with group standing in twisted positons, eyes shut. We were walking in darkness, …

Two people (1&2) enter caught up in the following conversation. 1. Three shepherds walked into a building, you’d have thought at least one of them would have seen it coming. 2. …

A while ago a friend emailed me with the words of this song. He had always loved Edith Piaf’s song ‘Je ne regrette rien’; but thought of it as a …

Freddy Function refused to tow the line. At school he was always in trouble for turning up late, working too slowly, asking the wrong questions and making unexpected comments. At …

…if Pilate and Jesus had met a week before their conversation on Good Friday. Pilate: (pushing through the crowd) Outa my way, outa my way… keep back there, keep back. …

…If the gates of heaven were locked If truth were cloudy and distorted And the world had leaked all purpose and hope. Imagine if the way to Life was not …

Once there was a woman who decided to build her own house. She knew nothing about building houses but she thought it couldn’t be that difficult, so she bought a …

Jesus has the wrong sort of hands. Builder’s hands. Not rabbi’s. There isn’t a religious teacher in Israel walking around with those gnarled knuckles and cracked fingers. Carpenters don’t become …

A group of 5 angels wander in and look a little bored. Then Michael, the chief angel, walks on with a clipboard and addresses them. Michael’s words are in bold. …

Moses has a straight talking father in-law. Jethro’s about to pay him a visit in the desert and if his daughter’s anything to go by then he’s very probably a …

A man moved to a new town and bought an old run down ice cream parlour. He figured that the spectrum of flavours he could offer would enhance people’s lives …

It was the big fisherman, looking as gruff as ever. He held out his massive hand and it cupped a wedge of bread and some fish. I took it. It …

Many Christians are embarrassed about the presence of Song of Songs in the Bible, featuring as it does, so many earthy references. But fear not, Erasmus Perfifola the third has …

It’s dark down there. And cold. And worst of all dirty. He can see the bits of rubbish and human waste drifting past his face, brushing against his skin, leaving …

He rolled up in an old corroded sports car – a brown rust bucket of a classic. I’m no car man so I’d be guessing at the make and model. …

Archaeologists have recently made a startling and enlightening discovery. They have come across Paul’s 3rd letter to the Corinthians. It was found by accident in a dilapidated church vestry by …