This collection of short dialogues based on Biblical stories
provides some useful material to enliven services.
They are solidly written but perhaps stay a little too safe,
and one or two of them rely too heavily on
clichés, these are a good starting point for those who want to try out
some dramatic readings within worship – they are going to be invaluable in
finding ones feet and building confidence.
That said I feel that you would quickly get
to the point where you would want to do more, to write you own dialogues and to
push the boundaries of what the disciples were thinking.
Drama is often most powerful when used to
allow a congregation to think the “unthinkable” – to give motivations to the
actors within Biblical stories that are beyond the sanitised versions that we have
often become over familiar with.
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