Add a Little Dramatic Play to Learning
Pentecost Play
A Bible based audience participation play script
Clothed in Power
sample of free play script
What's an Audience Participation Play?
Peter, disciples and cape swirlers enter.
Narrator
Clothed in power-a gift from the Father
promised by the risen Jesus.
What miraculous power is this that turns
a time of mourning into a time of inexpressible joy? -
that changes the heart of a man in an instant?-
that changes a man such as Peter
from a grain of shifting sand
into a rock on which to build a church?
Peter and two disciples stand in centre.
Peter
I am Peter - a new man -
a changed man - not changed by my own will,
but by a power far greater than any man
could fully comprehend.
In those early days with Jesus
we were all so eager to learn -
listening, following, watching,
and I of course always asking question after
question - often talking before thinking!
But fortunately for me,
one of the Master’s best qualities was patience.
My impetuous behaviour must often have given Him
and my fellow disciples cause to wonder
about my ability to live up to the name
he had given me - “Rock”.
It’s only now - after Pentecost -
that I know how little we really understood the lessons
that Jesus was trying to teach us.
Oh - we were doing the best we could at the time -
you see, there was a missing ingredient -
something without which
we couldn’t possibly have complete understanding
of God’s wondrous grace and love -
the Holy Spirit.
Disciples sit.
Narrator
Peter and the disciples knew of the Holy Spirit.
They had heard, as we have,
about Jesus’ baptism by John in the River Jordan.
“As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went out of the water.
A that moment the heaven was opened,
and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove
and lighting on Him.”
Two people with dove cape
swirl around in centre during the chant.
Choir
(chanting)
Group 1: The Holy Spirit comes as a dove.
Group 2: A heavenly dove.
Group 3: A dove of beauty and gentleness.
Group 4: A dove of peace.
