Acts of Salvation Eight Plays for Advent and Passiontide

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These eight play scripts, each with music suggestions from well-known contemporary and theater sources, enable Christian communities to tell the story of their faith in a dramatic new way. The plays use various theatrical devices -- humor, surprise, conflict, and parallel storytelling -- to take a fresh look at the situations and characters found in Scripture. The Advent plays are set in heaven, the cast usually angels. The scripts encourage audience participation -- one play even commissions the congregation as extra angels for the Good News season to come. The Passion plays use both traditional and contemporary settings, but the music suggestions come right from Broadway, the movies, and other popular sources. The dramas have all been performed in churches, both to support worship services and to help congregations -- both players and audience -- become more engaged in familiar stories. Includes an appendix of opening and closing prayers for each play and permission to photocopy each script forrehearsal purposes.