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According to
the Gospel
of Matthew
Here is a
chance for your
group to perform its way through the Gospel of Matthew.
You will
need
three Judges, a time keeper and a gong.
Each
group will
need three or four performers and to choose a name. They will receive
their
task one act before their performance.
If you
only have
a few groups then each group may act twice.
Each
judge will
score each group out of ten. Those who have the top scores in the first
round compete in the final.
ROUND
ONE
(Two minute skits with two minutes for preparation)
1. Phone
Book Conversation:
Your mission is to say the list of ancestors of Jesus as if it was a
conversation
in a foreign language to someone asking directions to a shop.
(Matt.1:1-17)
2.
Commentary: One
person is a news commentator and has to speak very fast while
describing
the Magi riding their camels to Bethlehem and arriving.
(Matt.2:
1-12)
3. Tell a
story while
acting out being puppets:The Temptation of Jesus. (Matt.4: 1-17)
4. Whose
hands:
The team has two people sitting on chairs. Each person on a chair has
someone
sitting behind being the hands for them, while being interviewed for a
TV show about anger. (Matt.5: 21-26)
5. Offertory:
Person
giving money, but so that everyone notices them. (Matt 6:1-4)
6. Switch:
Every time
the word "switch" is said by a judge the performers reverse roles.
Switch
between being judgmental and not. (Matt. 7:1-6)
7. Mime:
Act out the drama without words. (Matt. 13:47-52)
8. Tell a
story backwards:
Start at the end, then the middle then the beginning. The
Vineyard.(Matt.
20:1-16)
9. Sound
effects:
Modern sound effects occur in the background and you have to include
them
in the story that you are acting out. The triumphant entry. (Matt.
21:1-17)
10. Power
Struggle: One
person (goat) has to persuade the others that he is a sheep.
(Matt.25:
31-46)
11. Opposite
story:
The people have to act out the opposite to what is normal. eg. The
ungreat
commission. (Matt 28:19-20)
FINALS
FOR THOSE
WHO WON THE FIRST ROUND
1. Act out
a word:
eg. fasting, righteous, saved, born again, disciple.
2. A poem:
Each person
in the group stands in a straight line facing the audience and says one
word of a poem for two minutes. Topic: Jesus' Birth.
3. Conversation
with only
one word per person: Demanding a sign. (Matt 16:1-4)
4. Sing a Song:
The
group sings a song about the ten young women. (Matt 25:1-13)
