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Bethlehem Experience, The
Type: BOOK
Author: Musgrave, Dluehosh, and Wray
Author: Musgrave, Dluehosh, and Wray
"You Are There" tours the Bethlehem marketplace on the night of Jesus' birth. Transform your church/Sunday school rooms into Bethlehem, and allow your audience to move from room to room (or area to area) where they meet different people in Bethlehem on Christmas night. Great script!
Christmas Pageants and Plays: 12 Complete Pageants
Type: BOOK
Author: Minshull, Evelyn
Author: Minshull, Evelyn
Wide variety of program materials for full-length pageants and plays. Versatile material can be used in full or in part to combine with your church's traditional program. Designed to create painless holiday productions that are entertaining and meaningful.
Costuming the Christmas and Easter Play With Ideas for Other Biblical Dramas
Type: BOOK
Author: Staeheli, Alice M.
Author: Staeheli, Alice M.
How to create the best costumes effects with the least amount of effort and expense. Patterns, pictures and instructions for various biblical characters.
Drama in the Church: Planning and Staging dramatic Productions-Several Complete Scripts
Type: BOOK
Author: Johnson, Bev
Author: Johnson, Bev
Explores many forms and uses for Christian drama. Offers instructions on how to plan and implement drama, materials help, and several scripts: monologues, dialogs, one-act plays and full-length plays.
Drama Through the Church Year
Type: BOOK
Author: Smith, Judy Gattis
Author: Smith, Judy Gattis
Everybody's idea book of Christian drama activities for producers, directors and actors of all ages. Ideal for the person who wants to start a drama program or revitalizing an existing program in their church.
Four Parables of Jesus
Type: BOOK
Author: Smith, Judy Gattis
Author: Smith, Judy Gattis
The Lost Coin, The Lost Sheep, The Good Samaritan, and The Lost Son. Offers an opportunity for students ages 6-12 in the church school, to present in various forms of informal drama a rendition of the parables of Jesus. Scenes are written so that everyone in the class can participate. Teacher with little dramatic training can lead these stories with no difficulty.
Inheritance, The
Type: BOOK
Author: Saur, Frederick L.
Author: Saur, Frederick L.
Easy-to-produce play based loosely on the parables of the prodigal son, the visit of the rich young ruler, and the healing of leprosy. Biblically based play on family love, doubt, sympathy, and faith. 4 women and 4 men, playing time: 90 min.
Lessons of Jesus, Volume 3
Type: BOOK
Author: Priore, Frank
Author: Priore, Frank
Faith in life dramas for youth. Chancel dramas for youth based on the teachings of Jesus. Includes: The Ten, The First Stone, The Rich Man, The Great Commandment, and My Father's Business
Little Star, The: A Christmas Fantasy
Type: BOOK
Author: Meddows, Georgene
Author: Meddows, Georgene
Great 20 minute Christmas pageant for a small church with a limited budget. Involves all age/grade departments and is a candlelight play. Uses favorite carols, but you may substitute your own. Costumes are simple and easy.
Living Christmas Card, The
Type: BOOK
Author: Privette, Eleanor T.
Author: Privette, Eleanor T.
A fresh, unique, exciting drama program for children and adults of all ages. Booklet showing how to stage 10 scenes that unfold within a giant, living Christmas card with narrators, poetry, music and prose.
Lost Star, The: A Pageant Fantasy of the First Christmas
Type: BOOK
Author: Wilson, Dorothy Clarke
Author: Wilson, Dorothy Clarke
A pageant of the first Christmas in 5 episodes for 9 men and 5 women. Based on the adventures of Balthasar, it tells how he lost the light of the star by seeking revenge on an old enemy and how he found it again in time to seek the King.
Magic of Puppetry, The: A Guide for Those Working with Young Children
Type: BOOK
Author: Jenkins, Peggy Davison
Author: Jenkins, Peggy Davison
Shows how puppets can help children develop better communication skills, express their creativity, and release repressed emotions. Easy-to-follow instructions on how to make over 40 types of puppets. Emphasizes the therapeutic value of dramatic play.
Man Called Jesus, A
Type: BOOK
Author: Phillips, J. B.1959
Author: Phillips, J. B.1959
A series of short plays from the life of Christ.
Mustard Seeds and Wine Skins
Type: BOOK
Author: Poovey, W. A.
Author: Poovey, W. A.
Dramas on seven parables. Requires a minimum of staging and costuming and can be presented even by small congregations.
Parables of Jesus, Volume 1
Type: BOOK
Author: Priore, Frank
Author: Priore, Frank
Faith in life dramas for youth. Chancel dramas for youth based on the parables of Jesus. (youth performers)
Prayer He Taught, The: Seven Dramas on the Lord's Prayer
Type: BOOK
Author: Poovey, W. A.
Author: Poovey, W. A.
Using modern characters and real life situations, these dramas bring fresh light to the Lord's prayer. Can be simple or elaborate.
Prophet Meets Madison Avenue and Four Other Contemporary Dramas, The
Type: BOOK
Author: Labriola, Matthew V
Author: Labriola, Matthew V
Collection of short, easy to perform plays brings biblical stories to life in new, contemporary settings. Each drama is ideas for all ages, in Sunday school, youth nights, or chancel drama.
Reader's Theater: Contemporary Readings in Christian Fairh
Type: BOOK
Author: Watson-Burgess, Linda
Author: Watson-Burgess, Linda
Short, thought-provoking dramas, a contemporary presentation of the gospel message. Designed to be read before a group; no memorization required.
Shepherds Abiding: A Christmas Religious Fantasy in One Act
Type: BOOK
Author: Wilson, Dorothy Clarke
Author: Wilson, Dorothy Clarke
A Christmas play for 5 angels and 8 other characters.