Description

Independence Day/Remembrance Day drama.

Drama shows how real freedom is freedom in Christ and how it is Christ who sets you free.
One of my favorite scripts, we and friends from Hunter Army Air Base performed this for a congregation who were outbound to service in the middle east.

Cast: 4 m or f

• Bob – not the brightest bulb on the tree
• Alice
• Liz
• Tom

Bible Reference:

• 2 Corinthians 3:17

Set: standard

Sound: wireless mics if available

Song: none

Lighting: standard

SFX: none

Props: none

Costumes: standard

Special Instructions:

• Bob’s blundering ways need to be balanced by the other actors

Time: 25

Sample of script:

Bob comes on stage to see all other actors standing at attention

Bob: Hey, what are you guys doing standing here in a straight line, not moving, looks like you aren’t even breathing.

others glare at Bob, don’t move or respond

Bob, walks in front of each one in turn, talks to each: Helllloooooo! Anybody home? Helllloooo! Wakey, wakey!

actors become increasingly upset with Bob

Alice, annoyed: Would you mind?

Liz: Nothing I hate worse than someone who shows up at events like this and doesn’t have the decency to show some respect.

Bob: Respect? Respect what?

Tom: Our country, try!

Bob: Respect our country? Someone saying I don’t respect my country? I shall have you know that Bob Jefferson respects his country as much as the next guy!

Alice: Perhaps you would like to show it a bit by showing some decorum?

Bob: Decorum? What’s decorum, and anyhow what does that have to do with anything?

Tom: Decorum is acting in a respectful manner.

Bob: Oh there we go again, saying I don’t respect my country. . . . . (looks at each of the actors) . . . . Mind tellin’ me why for you are all standing there, hands over heart? . . . Don’t tell me, you guys been eatin’ out down at Chilli Charlie’s, haven’t you? I swear that food ol’ Charlie serves up would make a steel tank sweat!

Liz: Oh give me a break! Where have you been all your life? Our hand on our heart is a sign of respect!

Tom: Perhaps you might consider doing the same?

Bob: Let me get this straight .. . You guys holding your hands over your hearts is a sign of respect? So now you are respecting your heart? I didn’t realize this is Heart and Stroke Month.

Alice: Oh really Bob, what do you think this is all about? What day is it?

Bob: Let’s see, it’s not Monday, I know that. And it’s not my birthday. . . . (thinks) . . . Could you give me a hint?

Liz: Try “independence”!

Bob, with pride: My home town!

Tom: What about your home town?

Bob: Independence. Independence, Wyoming*. Town where I was born. Sad kinda, I can’t go back there no more though.

*(Wyoming was chosen since it is one of the very few states where there appears not to be a town by the name of Independence)

Tom: Why can’t you go back. . . (looks at others) and why am I asking?

Bob: They shut her down. All two families moved out, nothing there now except the old barber chair used to be in Blind Jack’s Barber Shop and Taxidermy.

Alice: . . the barber was . . . blind?