Children are searching for the best good, big, cheap gift. A genuine Christian Christmas gift for the pastor, and they find that what the pastor really wanted was for them to step out and show Christian love to those who needed it most by building bridges. Four scenes are used in order to insert some Sunday school or musical presentations, but could be run as one continuous drama. NOTE: This is a shortened version of the script…

Has Christmas come to seem kinda, well, blah, unexciting, tedious, old hat? Well perhaps you need . . . Christmas Encounters of a Fresh Kind . . A humorous monologue has a woman considering changes to her tacky Christmas decorations, when she is challenged to have a fresh look at why she is celebrating the season Sample of script: actress comes on stage, looks around the stage area Oh man!These old Christmas decorations really gotta go! suddenly…

Taking a step back from the busyness that surrounds the Christmas season, getting a renewed perspective on the reason for the season, and all we have to be thankful for. Cast: 1 likely female, could be male Set: bare with a chair Props: phone, TV remote Special Instructions: Leave reasonable room between actor’s lines for the person on the phone to have responded, rehearse the timing of “listening time” Through facial reactions, body language, the actor appropriately…

Theme:       A different kind of a Christmas drama. A grandfather is dealing with Stage 4 cancer, all the family, (varying degrees of dysfunctional), is invited back home for Christmas.  The focus of this drama is not so much on the birth of Jesus but on the reason he came to earth, lived a human life and died on a cross as the required sacrifice for our sins. Useful at all times of the year.   Bible Reference:     …

This drama follows a couple and their family from childhood to deathbed. The Christmas season is an eventful time in this family as triumphs and tragedy tend to make themselves known at this season. Can be used as a dinner theatre or regular drama, and at Christmas or any other time of year. If dinner theatre use end of appropriate scene for meal or dessert. Bible Reference:     Revelations 3:/p>   Cast:         13, some could be doubled up,…

Understanding Christmas through Christmas cards. Three women are shopping in a card store, at various stages of their understanding of Christmas. They find there is much difference between a "Christmas card message" and the real message of the birth, and the worth, of the Son of God coming to be among us on that first Christmas. The three characters are at various stages of Christian maturity, with Brenda at the "high end" and Tracy at the "low…

Christmas isn't what it used to be! This very popular Christmas comedy illuminates the changing views of what is, and what was, a Christmas celebration. Obligatory family attendance at a church service seems a thing of the past. We all know it's slipping away, lament its passing, yet other activities replace the true reason for the Christmas season. Writing this script I wanted to show different ways people handle celebrating the season, thus creating the requisite dramatic…

Christmas shopping exposes great differences among people. A comedy with two couples at different stages of Christmas understanding are "shopping" in a department store indicating the great differences between the "Smiths" and the "Jones" way of looking at things. The Smiths are pillars of the community and the church, the Jones are, well, they are the Jones for sure. Actually Doreen Jones, on a good day could be likeable and quite almost Ok. Her husband Doug, he…

a comedy as Mr and Mrs Beauregard Crudgemuffin celebrate Christmas in the "old south" By Michael Wright and Ane Mulligan Characters: Beauregard Crudgemuffin an old-money Southern gentleman Margaret Crudgemuffin, Beau’s wife, a sheltered Southern belle. Scarlett Loblolly, Margaret’s first cousin Woodman, the Crudgemuffins’ English butler Forsythia Wentworth Loblolly, Margaret’s mother. Scene: Living room of the Crudgemuffin manse. Woodman is holding a skein of tinsel between his two outstretched hands, at Margaret’s decorative disposal. Beau is assisting -…

Young mother talks of cozy feelings about Christmas as her family try a Christmas at the cabin. Shouldn't Christmas be more than cozy feelings? Sample of script: Scene opens as spotlight comes up on center stage. Actor then enters the stage and begins talking to herself. Actor: (Shivers) Brr! It’s cold in here! You would think we’re back in the 1900’s without heat and all! I think I can see my breath! Some Christmas Eve this is…