Jingle Beans [Mr Bean christmas script]

Assistant sets up chairs, stands, music, Trumpet on stand.

• Bean walks past, notices instruments at a glance.
• Comes back intrigued at trumpet, looks around and sits down.
• Pulls out teddy and shows.
• Puffs out cheeks, showing off to teddy, then gives teddy turn
• Plays with valves, then gives teddy turn jumping on valves
• Says “hello” in bell, Teddy falls in bell and is wedged in.
• Violinist comes out and trumpeter. Trumpeter, ignored by bean and they walk away confused.
• Jingle Bells chorus played by violin and stops waiting for trumpet “Hey”, but muted by Teddy, Bean confused but finds teddy and pulls out, and mouthpiece falls out while removing teddy
• Misses next hey, because no mouth piece, gives verbal “hey”
• Jingle bells verse played, Bean chases mouthpiece beneath chairs. Buzz “hey” under chair with mouthpiece.
• Back to chair, inconveniently in between stands and player.
• Last Hey is ‘fart sound’ - amusing Bean but not violinist.
• 12 days of Christmas (or Deck the halls) played by violinist
• Bean gets bored after a while, starts shaving face and forehead, and nose - but get;s stuck on nose hair.
• After pulled out, noes is left tickled, and hints at sneeze - that goes away temporarily.
• Sneezes, no tissue, hints at using teddy to wipe noes but aborts, sneaks sheet of music from violinist.Blows noes long an loud, and puts in pocket.
• Violin gets near end of song and runs out of music mid musical phrase, looks for it.
• Bean looks around then realizes the music in hsi pocket, hesitantly hands scrunched music from pocket, violinist takes, Bean sneaks off, violinist squeals and leaves..

Performance: Castle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church Christmas Social - Dec 9, 2023

Follow My Lead [mime script]

The robots throwing rubbish represents people stuck in life, spewing out rubbish again and again and getting now where. Jesus comes, suggests a better way, and steps in and leads by example, encouraging us to follow him. Taking the sins and throwing them away and taking a new straight direction - and Jesus takes away our sins forever.

Cast of 7. One of whom is an enthusiastic mime.

Duelling Connections [mime script]

A play for three, on the concept of everyone begin wired differently and connecting to God in different ways, or, how different worship styles meets the needs of different people.
Use a Dueling Banjos background track edited to your choreography, or even better - played live for your choreography!

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[Person one has a triangular prism attached to a string, attached to their waist.
Person two has a rectangular prism attached to a string, attached to their waist.
Person three has a cylinder attached to a string, attached to their waist.
The shapes can all be made of different materials, like a can for the cylinder and cardboard for the triangle.]

Music starts.

Each person shows their shape to the audience in turn.

A box is put on a high table or stool, and the audience sees one side with three triangle shaped holes facing them. (the other two sides with holes are hiding on the bottom and on the back)

I Am Strength [mime script]

Drama about finding strength in the Lord through life's challenges

Synopsis: The woman moves along the timeline of life, collecting more trials as she goes, and they start to weigh her down, until she reaches the end of her rope and struggles to continue. God, the I AM, offers help, and when finally accepted it gives her enough strength to lose the weight of the ill effects of the trials in her life, even defeating temptation.Call him.

Music “Lean on me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ-MySzAac 

Duel of Faiths [mime script]

Drama about community being the main attraction of church and the temptations of the wold drawing people away from church

(Quite, country background sounds play, soft church bell ringing.)

Good sets up a church, left side of stage (could be a small cardboard cutout)
Innocent walks on stage looking around as if wondering where they should go.
Good invites Innocent over to church. Innocent is weary but starts to move that way...

(Dramatic choir music begins [edited version of Duel of Fates])
Door opens, revealing a smokey scene.
Innocent and Good both look over curiously

(Second hit of choir singing seconds later)
Strobe light flashes in back room too

(Choir stops, orchestra starts)
Evil walks in a few paces, black attire. Cape?
Looks around audience a little, then locks gaze onto Innocent, who is just staring

(Choir starts again)
Good holds a medium size Magnet up, showing labels:

• Music (top)
• Bible study (bottom)

Pulls in Innocent a little

(choir starts again, higher)
Evil now holds up their larger magnet, showing :

• Parties (top)
• Sports (bottom)

Pulling Innocent their way now. 

Blossom [mime script]

A beautiful, yet confronting, dancing mime about good and bad labels affecting women. This powerfully emotionally charged drama set to a harp and violin version of ‘Meditation’ by Massenet.(times listed below will vary per recording) eg youtube.com/watch?v=rNNphUmKiJw

The script is tightly synced with the music’s swells, with a trained, flowing dancer. The aim is to connect the audience to the woman, feel her pain, (some will even relate, while others will be made aware of women struggling through such things) and then feel her joy as she has victory over the depths of Satan’s evilness.

This woman is to be totally broken from these initial unfair and confronting words, to the point of despair, and then is ultimately built up from the depth of Satan’s lies and see the ultimate inspiring truth: she is a loved child of God, as is every member of the audience.

Greedy-up [mime script]

A mime skit with balloons about greed and generosity

[Set to some fitting movie soundtrack music backing, like Indiana Jones's 'the snake pit']

Balloon-Creator pumps up balloons constantly, (8 in total on stage) not tying them off, just holding one once it’s pumped and waits, and hands it over each time someone approaches.

Gree-Dee, seeing the first balloon is ready, rushes to get the first balloon, and takes it.

Jen-Ross politely approached for the first balloon but missed and waits politely.

Gree-Dee snatches the second, third and fourth balloon as they are finished (before Jen-Ross can get their first balloon - reaching out politely each time to take it but missing out). Gree-Dee now has two balloons in each hand and looks smug.

Mr Bean Resuscitates [A funny skit for a talent night]

Intro: "Can we get someone up here to adjust this mic up a bit, please?"

Verse 1 Start: Bean enters, with magazine, looking around for the music he strangely recognizes.

Verse 1 Halay: Singer waves Bean over, in time with "A-Lay-Loo-Yaas"

Chorus 1 Start: Gestures to Bean to adjust the mic up, does so but too high.

Chorus 1 Halay: Bean proud, until looks at Singer who stares at Bean unimpressed, and Bean sees problem, mildly upset at hassle and stupidity of the singer.

Verse 2 Start: Loosens, ready to adjusts down.

Verse 2 Halay: On second YAAA whacks microphone on singer's head. 'THUMP' and singer falls to ground unconscious

Father's Apprentice [mime script]

A mime about a fathers influence on their child. 

Set to an edited down version of Disney's Sorcerer's Apprentice soundtrack

[first Strings stanzas]
Standing net to each other, Father tries a few times to show son how to shake hands, but he never does in return.

[hopping sounds that turn into marching]
Dad stomps foot in frustration and thinks.
Pause until second music stomp and then son stomps in time with music once.
Father a little surprised, tries again curiously, with two stomps in time with music
Another pause and son does two stomps with music.
Father excited, starts marching on the spot with music, watching to see if son follows, son soon copies, and they march in a circle doing a 'skip' in time with the music.

Father thinks what else to do, tries rolling arms, then son copies
Father tries knocking knees, and son copies

Mr Bean Sings [Skit for a talent night]

Compare: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a slight delay for our next artist. But you’re in for a real treat. Classically trained, toured throughout Europe, he has a voice you’ll never forget. I’ll just go and see if he’s arrived.


BEAN: Enter sweeping, Find Lolly, blow and eat.

See microphone “hello”, “pft” “laugh”

Get player, pull out cassette which is all come out - wind up.



Intro music. Pull out hymn book

V1: not find. Idea, Sings ALAYLOOYA,

look index, find ALya... ya.... yaaaa

Life of Clair [mime script]

A moving Mother's day skit on a woman's courage, a mother's love

Set to music Clair de lune
(Timing cues)

0:00 mother and father stand face to face, staring at ground motionless.

(After opening stanza) Slowly look up and at each other.

Mother slowly raises her hand and sorrowfully strokes fathers check.

0:35 Father picks up suitcase and leaves, leaving mother staring at door for a few moments after he’s gone.

1.03 She picks up baby with joy in her heart at first, turns to trying to quiet/settle Baby asleep in her arms.

1:40 Takes baby out of room.

1:50 Mother returns, hair is in pony tail and wearing apron. Takes ‘month’ off calendar or winds wall clock forward, makes sandwich, primary daughter who followed her in waits - snatches once sandwich is given and leaves without acknowledgement to mother.