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Bethlehem Hillside
[DARK NIGHT: SCARLET & MOLLY BOTH SITTING DOWN]
MADDY: [SCARED] What’s that noise!
MOLLY: [GRUMPY] Oh, I expect it’s the wolves – they’ve come back again.
MADDY: [SCARED] A wolf pack! Oh no! Not when there’s just the two of us!
MOLLY: [GRUMPY] Yeah, where are they all when you need them? I have to do everything around here!
MADDY: [SCARED] What are we going to do?
MOLLY: [GRUMPY] I’ll say what I think of them when they get back!
MADDY: [ANNOYED] No, no no! What are we going to do about the wolves!
MOLLY: Sorry, I thought you meant the rest of the shepherds.
MADDY: [ANNOYED & LOOK FOR A HIDING PLACE] No, the wolves! Where can we hide?
HOLLY: [ENTER STAGE] You can’t hide – you are supposed to be protecting the sheep from the wolves!
MADDY: [SCARED – RUN ROUND IN A CIRCLE] Aaaagh! I thought you were a wolf!
HOLLY: [SARCASTICALLY] So what were you going to do if I had been a wolf – Frighten me off by going ‘aaagh!’
MADDY: [HIDE HEAD IN YOUR HAND]
SAMMY: [SKIP ON] I’ve had so much fun!
MOLLY: [GRUMPY] Oh no! Here we go again! [MIMIC VOICE] ‘You should have been there – You missed all the fun!’
SAMMY: You did miss the fun!
MOLLY: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bethlehem’s streets are paved with gold! Pull the other one!
SAMMY: You are so grumpy.
LUKE & BEN: Hi everyone.
HOLLY: So, what kept you two then? [TEASE] Not been getting into trouble have you?
BEN: No, why?
SAMMY: [TEASE] Hope you’ve been saying your prayers Rebecca.
LUKE: What? I have, but what has that got to do with anything?
HOLLY: [TEASE] There’s so many naughty things you can do in Bethlehem, were you tempted?
SAMMY: [TEASE] Yeah, tell us.
BEN: [FED UP] Oh, get a life Sammie!
HOLLY: [SERIOUS] So what did you do then?
LUKE: [DEFENSIVE] We sat and talked.
HOLLY: And what was so interesting?
BEN: You wouldn’t want to know
HOLLY: Try me.
SAMMY: Tell us!
MOLLY: [GRUMPY] Here we go! It’s going to be some earth shattering event!
LUKE: [DEFENSIVE] We were talking about what happened in the temple.
BEN: [EXCITED] Yeah, just over a year ago.
MADDY: [LAUGH] You’re telling us something happened in the temple just over a year ago!
MOLLY: Nothing ever happens in the temple!
HOLLY: It’s so boring!
MADDY: You have to wear posh clothes and talk quietly.
SAMMY: And walk like this [HANDS TOGETHER, LOOK ‘RELIGIOUS’]
HOLLY: If God wants us to be like that – we’ve got no chance!
SAMMY: [LOUDLY] We’re loud!
MOLLY: We’re common!
MADDY: And some of us are far too grumpy for God to like us! [POINT AT MOLLY]
MOLLY: Oi, I’m not grumpy! I just see things as they are and tell people so!
LUKE: Did you want to hear what happened in the Temple, or not?
SAMMY: Come on tell us!
BEN: Six months ago a priest went into the Temple and an angel appeared to him.
HOLLY: What! You don’t believe such things surely?
LUKE: Yes, and the angel told him that his wife was going to have a son even though she was very old. But because the priest didn’t believe him, the angel stopped the priest’s tongue from moving.
And he was unable to speak anything until the boy was born!
SAMMY: You’re joking.
BEN: No, she’s not.
LUKE: The angel said that the baby was to be called John and that he would prepare the way for the Lord.
MADDY: Prepare the way for the Lord? Who or what is the Lord?
MOLLY: [GRUMPY] We don’t want a lord over us. Not another person to tell us what to do!
HOLLY: It doesn’t mean just another person. I think it means God.
BEN: But how can this John prepare the way for God?
MADDY: Anyway, that’s enough of that religious stuff. Do you want to hear about my new sheep?
It’s a rare breed and it cost me a lot of money.
MOLLY: Rare breed? A sheep is a sheep. Why pay extra for it?
MADDY: No, this is unusual, because it’s got big ears.
HOLLY: That’s not unusual, the big eared sort hang down, whereas the short eared ones point up.
MADDY: No, in this rare breed, the big ears point upwards!
MOLLY: Don’t talk so daft! Where is this, so called, rare breed then?
MADDY: Hmmm. [PUT HAND ABOVE EYES & LOOK AROUND & POINT TO DUNCAN]
There he is! On that hillside.
SAMMY: Where?
BEN: I can see something.
MOLLY: Don’t talk so daft! That’s not a sheep.
MADDY: It is!
LUKE: You were robbed, that’s a donkey!
MADDY: Well I thought it was at first, but he’s got wool on his back!
MOLLY: A donkey with wool on its back? I think you should have paid less – not more!
You’ll have to take it back tomorrow!
MADDY: No I won’t! He’s become part of the family!
HOLLY: Come on you lot, let’s gather around the camp fire, it going to be a long night.
[EVERYONE FORM A SEMI CIRCLE]
HOLLY: What’s that glow in the sky?
[ALL LOOK UP]
SAMMY: That’s strange.
BEN: Scary!
SAMMY: Sssssh!
MUSIC CD: SILVER STARS & ANGELS
ADRIAN: (Seated at amp): Don't be afraid! I have good news for you, a message that will fill everyone with joy. Today your Saviour, Christ the Lord, was born in Bethlehem. This is how you will recognize him: You will find an infant wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.
LUKE: Angels visiting us, that’s amazing!
HOLLY: They were talking about God the Lord being born in Bethlehem.
MADDY: How can that be?
MOLLY: [JOYFUL] Don’t just talk about it. Come on this is good news!
We need to go and worship him! [WALK OFF PUNCHING THE AIR]
[EVERYONE STAND SHRUGGING SHOULDERS, SCRATCHING HEAD, BAFFLED]
HOLLY: Molly has changed! What has happened to her?
MADDY: We need to go and worship this baby as well!
SAMMY: Come on then, let’s worship him!
[ALL GO TO THE STABLE, APPROACH THE BABY & KNEE DOWN]
THE END