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Snags
Utterly socially unrealistic
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Not sure whether this should be in Heaven, All Saints, or not on the Ship at all, but ... I'm trying to track down a script for a sketch from "some years ago".
Back in the 80s/early 90s the whole drama skit/sketch thing was very much in vogue, and I got roped into more than my fair share. We once did a very simple one: it was a two-hander in which A is dressed up as a baby in a playpen, and B is a parent/carer. The whole theme is "Love One Another", and B attempts to get A to say "Love one another". A, however, is a baby, and can't quite manage it. B gets increasingly frustrated, and ends up throttling/battering A whilst yelling "Love one another".
It was very short, and very effective, if somewhat disturbing (everyone laughs when an adult walks on in a nappy and talks nonsense; everyone gets uncomfortable as it gets very dark at the end).
I have an occasion where it would be handy to use it, but I gave all my drama stuff away years ago. I could re-write it from memory, but suspect there are subtleties I've forgotten so would rather not.
It predates wide use of t'InterWebz, and despite my usually considerable Google-Fu I can't find hide nor hair of it online.
It may have been in a "Back to Back" or similar collection. But it may not.
Ring any bells with any ex-iffy-Christian-drama bods?
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Brenda Clough
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I see you have had no replies so far, so let me weigh in with ideas. Is there a body (I don't know where you are) in your area that is in charge of the copyrights for drama, and licensing their performance? They might well know. Is there a playwrights association? Perhaps even a Christian playwrights association? Is there an eminence grise of religious drama, someone who has a long memory and deep experience?
Oh, and is there a library that collects or specializes in these things where you are? A smart librarian might be able to fish it out for you.
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Og, King of Bashan
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Originally posted by Snags:
The whole theme is "Love One Another", and B attempts to get A to say "Love one another". A, however, is a baby, and can't quite manage it. B gets increasingly frustrated, and ends up throttling/battering A whilst yelling "Love one another".
It was very short, and very effective, if somewhat disturbing (everyone laughs when an adult walks on in a nappy and talks nonsense; everyone gets uncomfortable as it gets very dark at the end).
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SOMEWHAT disturbing? I think I'd be so disturbed at the staged baby beating that I don't think I would take anything away from the skit, other than a strong desire to not come back to this church in the future.
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Snags
Utterly socially unrealistic
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Brenda: not that I'm aware of.
Og: well, indeed. As I was typing it made me ponder "What were we thinking?" but that's part of the reason for wanting to track down the original. The way it worked it wasn't as traumatic as it sounds - not least because the "baby" was 6'4" with a beard ...
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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I daresay you had to be there...
I would be inclined to rewrite. I suspect, if you did recover the original, you'd find memory had cast a glow over it that the mere script doesn't deliver.
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Og, King of Bashan
Ship's giant Amorite
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I'm sure the right big baby can pull it off. (Our best volunteer youth group leader used to be the master of turning drinking games he learned at rugby parties into perfectly innocent and well received youth group games, so trust me when I say that I get how some things sound like terrible ideas on paper but work really well in practice.)
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