Based on Luke 2: 1-20
 POY! SKIT GUIDELINES:
- In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words.
- Most POY! skits require no practice in advance.
- Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants.
- Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along.
- It is not necessary to employ costumes and objects, unless the skit recommends such.
- It is not required to have an audience watch the skit. All present may participate.
- Scripture and paraphrases, if any, usually appear in bold.
PARTICIPANTS:
Shepherd # 1 (also serves as Narrator)
Shepherd #2
Angel
MaryPrompter (Optional). Prompter shouts a brief line and Companions repeat it.
Companions (Optional): children and all adults who want to take part. Make sure Companions know who the Prompter is, and that they are to repeat Prompter’s words.
SCRIPT:
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Shepherd #1 |
Shepherds are watching a flock on a hill near Bethlehem in the year zero. |
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Shepherd #2 |
The sheep are quiet tonight. Nothing to fear! Who’s taking the first watch? |
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Shepherd #1 |
I get to sleep first! |
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Shepherd #2 |
Hey! Look up there! What’s that light up in the sky? I’ve never seen a light so bright at night. Whoa! It’s getting brighter and closer. Run! Hide! |
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Shepherd #1 |
The light is blinding me! Oh, look! It’s… It’s… Help! Help! |
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Angel |
Don’t be afraid. |
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Shepherd #2 |
“Don’t be afraid,†he says! Ha! What’s he expect? He’s an alien from outer space! |
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Angel
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No, that’s not why I came. I’m merely God’s messenger. |
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Shepherd #1 |
Look! There’s a whole army of angels! They’re singing! |
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Shepherd #2
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The harmony is beautiful! No one could ever forget it. It’s powerful! So comforting! |
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Prompter & |
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Shepherd #1 |
Hurry! Let’s go to Bethlehem, find the baby and worship Him! |
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Shepherd #2 |
Can you believe it? Our King and Deliverer born in a barn! What a strange place for a savior to be born! Oh, here’s His young mother. She seems very nice! |
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Shepherd #1 |
Young lady, angels sent us to see your child. He’ll be our Savior. Just think of it! |
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Mary |
I’m moved by what the angels told you about my son. It makes me weep with joy. |
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Shepherd #2 |
But why are you out in this barn with these smelly animals? |
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Mary
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There’s no room in the house, and the town is crowded with people. |
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Shepherd #1 |
Then you were also born in Bethlehem, the city of David? |
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Mary |
Yes. King David was ancestor to both my husband Joseph and me. |
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Shepherd #2 |
Uh, no. I’m going to escape the Romans’ attention. I hate those… those… |
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Mary |
Careful! You could get in serious trouble! \ |
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Shepherd #1 |
What kind of savior will the baby be? |
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Shepherd #2 |
I thought the Messiah would come to free Israel, but the angels said He would bless all nations. Strange! |
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Shepherd #1 |
Oh, praise the Lord! |
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Prompter & |
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DISCUSS:
Artists have painted angels as benign, tender, motherly beings ? so why were the shepherds so terrified, as was everyone else in Scripture who saw real angels?
Why did God permit His Son to be born out where smelly animals were, instead of in a grand palace?
What Old Testament prophecy was fulfilled that night, concerning the location of the Messiah’s birth?
(Good answers: Micah 5:2 foretold Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Also, Isaiah 7:24 foretold He would be born of a virgin.)
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