SCRIPTS
What does DIM do with its scripts, when
many are co-authored, and there is no corporation to handle financial
transactions? Starting this fall, DIM scripts and performance
rights are now available in exchange for a tax-deductible donation
to Global Music Ministries. Consult the charts below, then
contact Greg
Wright for payment details and to obtain copy-ready scripts. One
tax-deductible donation for full copying and performance rights (renewable
annually) -- shipping and handling
included!
All scripts are
performance-tested
.
| Title: Look No
Further |
| Classification: Biblical Drama, adult
or youth |
| Synopsis: Jesus comes to see John the
Baptist as he contemplates beginning his minstry. The
cousins have established a curious rappor, based on arcane
knowledge of the prophets and keen insight into their
meaning. Later, during his ministry, Jesus receives news
that John has been imprisoned, prompting his famous Scriptural
tribute to the Baptist. |
| Length: 30 minutes. |
| Cast: 5 m. |
| Rate:
$20.00 |
| Title: In the Presence of
Mine Enemies
|
| Classification: Biblical Drama, adult
or youth |
| Synopsis: Though a man after God's own
heart, King David is a strange fellow whose behavior drives
his wife Mical nuts. It's bad enough that he chases
after other women, but when Nathan reveals the lengths to
which David goes, Mical is astonished. In his later
years, as Joab defies his instructions regarding Absolom,
David recalls his early days at the table of King Saul.
A meditation on the Easter sacrifice. |
| Length: 60 minutes. |
| Cast: 7 m., 2 f.,
extras |
| Rate:
$30.00 |
| Title: King to Knight's
Pawn
|
| Classification: Allegorical Biblical
Drama, adult |
| Synopsis: The King has long been
absent, and the care of the kingdom has been left to the
Steward. Years pass, and the battle with the Enemy waxes
stronger as one fiefdom after another must decide allegiance
to the King, or to his enemy. Meanwhile, those of the
kingdom vary in their commitment to the cause, and in their
understanding of how the battle should be fought. Some
die in the cause. When the King returns unlooked for,
the mighty and the lowly both struggle to understand the
King's justice. |
| Length: 45 minutes. |
| Cast: 3 m., 1 f., 5 m. or
f. |
| Rate:
$30.00 |
| Title: Of Might and
Men |
| Classification: Light Biblical Drama,
adult or youth |
| Synopsis: The story of Moses is well
known. What is not so well known is the story of the
women behind Moses: his mother, Jochebed; his adopted mother,
Asenath; and his sister, Miriam. This short play
features a hilarious retelling of Moses' encounter with God on
Mount Horeb. |
| Length: 30 minutes. |
| Cast: 3 f., 1 m., voice
off |
| Rate:
$20.00 |
| Title: Balaam's
Star |
| Classification: Light Christmas Drama,
all ages |
|
Synopsis: An old man returns to Bethlehem
some thirty years after the census of Caesar Augustus.
There he encounters a little girl named Mary, and
recounts to her the story of how the
Magi from the East first came to Bethlehem, and
what they found there. |
| Length: 20 minutes. |
| Cast: 4 m., 2. f. (speaking); plus pageant extras |
| Rate:
$15.00 |
| Title: 5 Good Friday
Monologues |
| Classification: Biblical
Drama, adult |
|
Synopsis: The Easter Story
from the point of view of John, Judas,
The Centurion, Mary the Mother of Jesus, and Mary
the wife of Clopas. |
| Length: 3-5 minutes each. |
| Cast: 3 m., 2 f. |
| Rate:
$15.00 |
| Title: An X-Mas Carol; or
Can We Take the Christ out of Christmas?
|
| Classification: Light Christmas drama, mixed adult
and juvenile |
|
Synopsis: The church's
Christmas pageant is saddled with a script which tries
to mix Dickens and Scripture, as well as an
assistant who likes to speak Spanish for no
particular reason. We see the production from the back-stage
view, warts and all. |
| Length: 45 minutes. |
| Cast: 6 adult or youth, mixed; 13
children, mixed (speaking); 8-10 children, extras. |
| Rate:
$30.00 |
| Title: Mary Had a Little
Lamb
(sequel to "An X-Mas Carol," above) |
| Classification: Light Christmas drama, mixed adult
and juvenile |
| Synopsis: This year, the producer of
the church Christmas pageant has arranged for
the aloof artists Eli and Amos to direct;
and Nell, the AD with a yen for Spanish,
once again assists. Their pre-production arguments visualize the different
ways the Nativity might be combined with the
classic nursery rhyme. A clever way to tie the
Easter story into Christmas. |
| Length: 40 minutes. |
| Cast: 2 m., 2 f. (adult); 22
children, mixed (speaking); 7 children, extras. |
| Rate:
$30.00 |
| Title: A Silent
Tongue |
| Classification: Christmas Service Prelude, adult
or youth |
|
Synopsis: Zecharias and Elizabeth muse about the
significance of their supernatural encounters, amidst the backdrop of
the Messiah's genealogical heritage. |
| Length: 15 minutes. |
| Cast: 1 m., 1 f., 6-8 mixed |
| Rate:
$15.00 |
| Title: A Quarter
Measure |
| Classification: Shakespearean Drama, adult
or youth |
|
Synopsis: A short Western adaptation of the Bard's tale
of Justice and Grace. |
| Length: 45 minutes. |
| Cast: 10 m., 2 f., 2 mixed |
| Rate:
$30.00 |
| Title: Abraham and Son --
Comprehensive Life and Casualty
|
| Classification: Biblical Comedy Sketch, adult
or youth |
|
Synopsis: A very strange salesperson visits a modern corporation
to pitch the new group health care plan:
one based on faith, with no promise of seeing
benfits in our lifetime. |
| Length: 20 minutes. |
| Cast: 6 w., extras |
| Rate:
$20.00 |
| Title: If Women
Hunted |
| Classification: Comedy Sketch, adult
or youth |
|
Synopsis: Four women struggle to
come to grips with the outdoors, and the rigors
of killing for food. |
| Length: 10 minutes. |
| Cast: 4 f. |
| Rate:
$15.00 |
| Title: Hot 'n' Tot Special
Teas |
| Classification: Comedy Sketch, adult
or youth |
|
Synopsis: A job
applicant at the Hot 'n' Tot Special Teas
Company has an interview with a very strange supervisor.
A Pythonesque one-punchline sketch. |
| Length: 10 minutes. |
| Cast: 2 m. |
| Rate:
$15.00 |
| Title: If Professional
Males Planned VBS Crafts |
| Classification: Comedy Sketch, adult
or youth |
|
Synopsis:
Five clueless men meet with this year's VBS director
to discuss crafts projects. |
| Length: 10 minutes. |
| Cast: 5 m., 1 f. |
| Rate:
$15.00 |
| Title: The Ship is
Sinking |
| Classification: Worship Drama, adult
or youth |
|
Synopsis: A couple on the Titanic come to
grips with the idea that the ship they are
on may be sinking. |
| Length: 7 minutes. |
| Cast: 1 m., 1 f. |
| Rate:
$10.00 |
| Title: The Chi-Rho Files --
Investigations of the Unorthodox
|
| Classification: Biblical Sci-Fi Drama,
adult |
| Synopsis: In 1962, Jesus Christ died on
a cross in Philadelphia. Years later, his followers have
come under persecution. In Kansas City, two members of
IU Central are sent to infiltrate a group of "Christians" who
are taking it to the next level: preaching to the
Gentiles. Part One of a serial drama examining what
vital first-century Christian faith might look like in today's
world. |
| Length: 60 minutes. |
| Cast: 3 m., 3 f. |
| Rate:
$35.00 |
| Title: The Chi-Rho Files --
The Assignment
|
| Classification: Biblical Sci-Fi Drama,
adult |
| Synopsis: Several years after Operative
Perez disappears while under cover, partner Nico finds a way
to investigate her disappearance -- within the boundaries and
under the auspices of IU Central's training divison.
Part Two of a serial drama examining what vital first-century
Christian faith might look like in today's world. |
| Length: 60 minutes. |
| Cast: 4 m., 1 f., 2 mixed,
extras |
| Rate:
$35.00 |
| Title: The Chi-Rho Files --
The Power Unleashed |
| Classification: Biblical Sci-Fi
Drama, adult |
| Synopsis: IU Operative Tira has
tracked missing operative Perez to Guatemala, where she nows
works as part of the persecuted underground church. Tira and
Perez are both faithful to God -- but
working in opposite directions, and with very different faiths.
Only the power of prayer can lead them both
in God's direction. Part Three of a serial
drama examining what vital first-century Christian faith might look
like in today's world. |
| Length: 70 minutes. |
| Cast: 6 m., 3 f. |
| Rate:
$35.00 |
| Title: The Chi-Rho Dating
Game |
| Classification: Comedy
Sketch, adult |
|
Synopsis: A humorous look at what
might happen if characters from "The Assignment," above, appeared
on "The Dating Game." |
| Length: 10 minutes. |
| Cast: 4 m., 1 f. |
| Rate:
$15.00 |
| Title: The Terrible
Meek , by Charles
Rann Kennedy (public domain) |
| Classification: Allegorical Biblical
Drama, adult |
|
Synopsis:
Two soldiers meet on a wind-swept, barren hill in
the blackness of a war-torn night. There, also,
is the mother of an innocent: a victim of
these men of war. |
| Length: 45 minutes. |
| Cast: 2 m., 1 f. |
| Rate:
$30.00 |
Copright (c) 2003-2006 Greg and Jenn
Wright Updated 3/04/06 |
