The pulpit can also be very useful as a prop. "Suddenly there appeared a host of angels.". There is a lot of impact in having a hoard of angels run onto the stage from the back of the church in an attempt to reproduce the spirit of The scripts make use of the whole church.Groups, and has other operational advantages. This approach makes it possible to rehearse in small The plays are designed as far as possible to have a set of self-contained scenes and with minimal overlaps of parts between scenes.Christmas is fun and profound at the same time.
We try to mix a light-hearted feel, with some jokes, with a serious take-home message.Metallic foil to look like gifts, or we use scrolls when appropriate. For example, we hide the words for the kings in open-topped boxes covered with We also try hard to avoid children needing to learn lines by writing scripts that could be read but hidden.Thus we aimįor stage movements that allow us to push children onto the stage and pull them off without them having to remember difficult movements. We take the view that children are always very busy at school around Christmas, so we have always tried to produce something that was easy for the children without being trivial.However, we have designed the scripts so that the number of parts can easily be adjusted (eg the numbers of speaking kings or shepherds can easily be modified), and in practice otherĬhurches have been able to use them with fewer children. Typically we are aiming at a group of around 15 children who will want speaking parts, with a number of other children who don't want to speak (eg as shepherds or angels) or who only want 1–2.The plays were designed within the context of the following situation: