Power Up Puppets [5-act puppet play about powering up ones christian walk]

~Act 1 ~ Tuesday ~

STEVIE: All right, have you got your full armour on?

DAVE:  Yep.

STEVIE: Ok, let's get this dragon. And try not to get killed this time.

DAVE:  Wait, wait… I Just need some more chips…

STEVIE: Oh yeah, better powerup!

[chips crunch]

STEVIE: Ok I'll count to three and I'll distract the dragon and you shoot it.

DAVE:  Let’s do it!

STEVIE: OK. 1….2…. THREE!!

DAVE:  Hey, wait up! I thought you meant after three!

STEVIE: It’s above you, Shoot it, shoot it!

DAVE:  I can’t see it.

STEVIE: Oh, it’s got me.

DAVE:  Augh nuts. Me to!

STEVIE: Oh man. That was over quick. This is so hard.

DAVE:  We need to powerup our armour more I reckon.

STEVIE: Yeah, or eat more chips…

DAVE:  Don’t mind if I do. I gotta go home. More Minecraft tomorrow?

STEVIE: Yeah, we should mine for more diamonds, so we can power up our amour to maximum.

DAVE:  Sound’s good, can’t wait. See you at school. We can talk strategy at lunch time.

STEVIE: See ya, Dave.

DAVE:  By!

[Dave leaves, Fiona enters]

FIONA:  Hey Stevie, Can I borrow your headphones?

STEVIE: No. You’ll just break them.

FIONA:  NO I WONT!

STEVIE: Fiona, you break everything! It’s like it’s all you know how to do.

FIONA:  No I don’t

STEVIE: Well use YOUR headphones then!

FIONA:  I can’t.

STEVIE: Why not?

FIONA:  Because… I broke them.

Make Room [ 2-hour, 4 sessions of 7 short acts each: total 28 acts]

G’day Cabin Actors!
With your help, over the next 4 days we are going to present a fantastical continual story through earth’s history - with up to 28 acts over 4 days!
Each day will have the same two angel actors (played by camp staff) conversing for Act 1 and ending alone together in Act 7. The two angels have requests from God to visit different settings in a section of earth’s history, looking for people who will make room for God in their life.
Your cabin will not only be acting out acts 2 to 6 on one of the days, but also writing some of the organise chaos that will take place within the act!
You will find listed for each act a particular setting, some characters and some scene plot suggestions it’s best if you include. You will need to write two or three minutes of script for each act and cast them and rehearse them to be performed by the members of your cabin to the whole camp.
The end of your cabin’s invented scene needs to continue on into the supplied script to end off the act. In this pre-scripted ending, one of the angels will join your cabin and interact in the script with the characters the cabin was given. Do blend in your cabin’s invented script into the existing scripted script. You may or may not get to rehearse with the real angel actors beforehand.
Many acts have room for extras to take part without any set lines. This is for if there are too many cabin members to include line parts for, or so lead actors can be extras in other scenes.
At the end of the cabin acts (2 to 6), the angel will invite a round of applause, and everyone in that act takes a bow and vacates for the next act’s cast to get up on stage.
 

"God will never allow more trials than we can handle" [Putting Bad Theology on Trial Sermon Drama Series 4/4]

To play out like a courtroom scene, immediately before a sermon that exposes the misquoted verse about God will never allow more TEMPTATIONS than we can handle.
This is one of four dramas for a "Putting Bad Theology on Trial" Sermon Series:

1. You can’t be sure of your salvation
2. God promises to guide and prosper us in all our daily living
3. Reverence must mean silence
4. God will never allow more trials than we can handle.

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Judge: OK, our first case for the morning is a complaint from a student that their teacher is giving them too much homework. Would the student please take to the stand and deliver their statement.

"Reverence must mean silence" [Putting Bad Theology on Trial Sermon Drama Series 3/4]

To play out like a courtroom scene, immediately before a sermon that affirms Reverence doesn't have be be boring.

NOTE: This will be a controversial script to run in a conservative church, (any, for example, that does not clap after a special item). This script has had much time put in trying to been worded carefully in an attempt to not make light of giving reverence to God - who deserves more than we can ever give. It attempts to show how holy God is and how in reality we can do nothing to match his holiness when giving reverence to Him. Also explores, "God is love", and how the thought that He is so easily angered by breaking different 'reverence rules' is not compatible with a God so loving. It's an extreme sermon opener where the preacher needs to balance out the argument. Use this script with caution. :)

This is one of four dramas for a "Putting Bad Theology on Trial" Sermon Series:

1. You can’t be sure of your salvation
2. God promises to guide and prosper us in all our daily living
3. Reverence must mean silence
4. God will never allow more trials than we can handle.

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Judge: OK, our first case for the morning is a complaint from a child that their dad always plays awful music on the car radio while they drive to and from school. Would you please take to the stand and deliver your statement.

"God promises to guide and prosper us in all our daily living" [Putting Bad Theology on Trial Sermon Drama Series 2/4]

To play out like a courtroom scene, immediately before a sermon that God doesn't promises to guide and prosper us in all our daily living. A sermon unpacking misconceptions on applying OT verses directly to our lives (like Jeremiah 29:11) without understanding context first) eg God does not plan every aspect of our daily lives, just the overall goal, which ultimately is our salvation, whereas we are responsible for the regular daily decisions which, however, might get overridden by someone else’s free will if it crosses ours.

This is one of four dramas for a "Putting Bad Theology on Trial" Sermon Series:

1. You can’t be sure of your salvation
2. God promises to guide and prosper us in all our daily living
3. Reverence must mean silence
4. God will never allow more trials than we can handle.

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Judge: OK, our first case for the morning is a child’s complaint against their parents.
It looks like they are seeking replace their mother because last week she did not make their bed for them.
Would the child please take to the stand and deliver their statement.

"I can never be sure of my Salvation" [Putting Bad Theology on Trial Sermon Drama Series 1/4]

To play out like a courtroom scene, immediately before a sermon that affirms you CAN be sure of your salvation.
This is one of four dramas for a "Putting Bad Theology on Trial" Sermon Series:

1. You can’t be sure of your salvation
2. God promises to guide and prosper us in all our daily living
3. Reverence must mean silence
4. God will never allow more trials than we can handle.

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Judge: OK, our first case for the morning is a parents’ complaint against their child.
It looks like they are seeking to expel their child from the family home because last week they did not put their dirty socks in the washing basket before the washing machine was started.
Would the accuser please take to the stand and deliver their argument.

Faith Over Fear [5 Act drama series for school week of worship]

Set on a deserted island, several plan crash survivors wait to be rescued – one of whom is overwhelmed with fearful thoughts tries everything he can think of to save himself from his fears.

Characters:

1.    Panic Pete: has to get off island asap for every fearful reason. Gets very wet most acts.
2.    Faithful Frank: has great faith all will be ok and people will rescue them
3.    Lovely Lisa: a ‘hip’ girl, not really made for the outdoors. Has a lipstick slip steak on her cheek each act.
4.    Mathematician Matt (Minor lines): pipes in with gloomy stat of unlikely survival rates here and there
5.    Son-lover Sunny (Minor lines): Love’s his sun and is very chilled.
6.    Captain (last act only): Serious

Everest [A fun 6 Act drama series for school week of worship]

Key Cast:

Oli - Optimist. A natural leader and optimist, he comes up with ideas and takes his friends with him on all sorts of adventures, when the going gets tough – Oli gets going.

Emma - Emma is the friend who everyone loves, kind hearted and always checking in to see how people are going. When someone is upset – they know they can come to Emma.

Fiona - Fiona can be a little shy, but she’s a great friend. She’s keen to give any adventure a try and she’s great with team work.

Steve - A Sherpa. He spends most of his days either climbing dangerous mountain sides with other people’s gear in his backpack, the other days, he hangs out a base camp with a nice warm cuppa.

Josie - Joker. Always cracking jokes and looking for something to have a laugh about, she’s a good girl at heart..

Bryan - Brains. If something is broken, or needing to be solved, Bryan is your man. Bryan is the friend who everyone goes to for answers – smart, quick, and witty.

Sherp - No one quite knows Sherp’s real name. We call call him Sherp. Sherp is a Sherpa who was born at base camp, grew up on the mountain and knows it like the back of his hand.. he can be a little pessimistic though

I Am [7 act skit series on Jesus' 'I Am' statements]

1. I am the true vine – John 15:1-5
2. I am the bread of life – John 6:35
3. I am the light of the world – John 8:12, 9:5
4. I am the gate – John 10:7
5. I am the good shepherd – John 10:11-14
6. I am the resurrection and the life – John 11:25
7. I am the way the truth and the life – John 14:6

Each skit:

Two people sitting around at a retirement home, one with a newspaper (N), the other a Bible (B), with scripts on them if acting live.
Slow to speak and even slower to reply to each other for effect there could be a literal 4-5 second gap between lines as the elderly process the thought and come up with a response. Make the skit about 5 mins
Can be live or pre-recorded - Can be same or different couples - Can be any combination of genders


THE VINE


(video intro)

B: Hey [insert elderly person name]

[remember 4-5 second delay for slow thinking EVERY time...]

N: Yeah?

B: Wha-da-ya-reckon Jesus meant when He said ‘I am the true vine’?

N: Dunno.... You sure it says ‘Vine’?

B: Yeah, I am the true vine.

N: Where’s it say that?

B: In John... chapter 15.... verse 1

N: Maybe he was pointing out that he had skinny legs, like a grape vine?

N: Or maybe his skin was flaky like the bark of a grape vine... and was encouraging people to moisturise?

Move with the Power 2017 series [X5]

Performance: SPD Move with the Power youth leaders conference - Sep 27 - Oct 1, 2017
Brief: A series of 5short skits matching the night's topic of the progressing journey of a Christian

1. Enlightened

[Angela is sitting on couch reading a magazine, a Bible sits on a table

Josh, a big bloke, walks in with a bag and holding a Football, wearing a dirty game top]

J: Hello?

A: Hi, You must be the new guy

J: Yeah. Josh [reaches out to shake hands]

A: Angela [shake hands] you play footy?

J: Oh yeah, it’s my life. Awesome game today. [mimes with the ball] two tries, and broke Barry’s ribs with a savage tackle. I was unstoppable today. You play footy?

A: Umm, nooo.

J: Watch it?

A: No way.

J: What, you a Christian or somethen, Angela?

A: What? Yeah? Because I don’t play football?

J: No, [points to Bible]  the Bible.

A: Oh! Yeah.

J: Seriously? You really believe those fairy tales?

Adventure With Jesus [6 Act Drama Series for school week of worship]

Set in heaven each day, performed looking into audience as if they are earth.

Cast members:

1. God: calm but loving in nature
2. GABE: excitable, worked up into a panic mostly
3. Jesus: calm and loving also. Day 1, 5, 6.
4. Mary and Joseph mimers: Day 1
5. Angels: Day 2,4,5
6. Satan: Day 5

1. Monday - Birth of a King

GOD: Jesus

JESUS: Yes father

GOD: It’s time... for you to go to earth.

JESUS: I know. I was hoping this day would never come, but I always knew it would.

GOD: Yes. At least it won’t be for too long.

JESUS: Yes, I know, but after spending eternity with you, It’s going to be hard to be away from you for the first time.

GOD: It’s the only way we can save them.

JESUS: Yes I know, I’m happy to go. I’ll do anything to have the humans able to come home to us,

GOD: Yes! I love them so much too. We have to free them from the world turned evil by Satan.

JESUS: So much pain and death there. It hurts so much.

GOD: Yes… and you're about to…..

JESUS: I know… I’m about to experience it... just as the Humans do.

...cancel that!

Performance: "The Gathering" - February 16, 2013

The brief given to Scott: A two part play on the days theme, "Be courageous in the year to come"

Finalist: 2013 Manifest Creative Arts Festival

“Mind” is read by an unseen reader as the conscience voice of a “mime” on stage who silently walks around a ‘lounge room’ after a days work

In Act 2, the script is repeated identically, except this time we can see a guardian angel following behind and radioing to heaven for assistance in the good choices being made – only to cancel them all as the ‘mind’ backs out each time.

Destination Dizzyland

 Performances: Lower Primary - "Big Camp", Victoria April 2011
and Warburton Seventh-day Adventist Church - July 23, 2011

The brief given to Scott: A series of 5 short plays themed around a 'plane trip to heaven', including specifically: Why we want to leave, How we get a ticket, Who is the Pilot, The journey and the final destination.

ACT 1: The Dream

SCOTTIE:     Hey Alex, do you ever dream of going to Dizzyland?

ALEX:         No. I love the park. It has both a swing AND a seesaw!

SCOTTIE:     (Puzzled) A Swing . . . and a seesaw?