Have fun With Your Christmas Play This Year

By Yvonne Brixey


Christmas plays and are especially fun and popular in the Christian community. Christmas plays vary in many ways, but the most traditional ones involve telling about Christ's birth in Bethlehem so many centuries ago. This is what makes a Christmas play so special to so many people. If you are planning a Christmas play production you have a lot of work ahead as you develop your cast and set and plan for time.

You can be flexible in how you develop your Christmas play. It need not last for a specific amount of time, but can be hours or minutes in length. The set of the play can be as simple as you like. In fact a simple interior and simple exterior set can work best to help your audience focus on the cast characters. It is the story of Christmas itself that makes a Christmas play so special. You will find that your audience is happy just to hear a treasured story that fills so many people with love each Christmas time.

According to the story in the Bible, Jesus Christ was born in the set of a lowly stable. His parents Mary and Joseph were visiting Bethlehem to participate in a census. They fought the crowded city streets in search of a place to rest in time for Mary could give birth to her special child, but the only place they could find to stay was in a barn set with animals. Scenery depicting this simple set is usually main interior set. However, variations of the Christmas play are almost as abundant as the stars that shone in the sky on the night of Christ's birth.

Cast is flexible in any Christmas play, so you can get creative and set scenes of a bustling Bethlehem city as Mary and Joseph search for a place to have the child born. You could also add cast members as hosts of Heavenly angels which are flexible in number, singing to the shepherds in a field of sheep. If you are hosting a Christmas play that will involve children in the cast, remember how much they will love dressing as the many different barnyard animals that may have been attending this event. The 3 Wise Men should be included in any Christmas play as well as the gifts they brought to the baby Jesus. And don't forget the sacred star that guided them from distant lands.

Music is a special and important part of any Christmas play. Some Christmas plays do not have any cast talking at all, because Christians already know the Christmas story so well there need be little or no need for cast dialog. Few things are as beautiful or more special to hear during a Christmas play than the songs of a simple Christmas choir, especially when sung by a cast of simple little children.

Developing a Christmas play is really fairly simple and flexible. If you own a bible, you already have a copy of the script, and know the set and cast. Let this be your guide when you design your interior set and simple exterior set. Take your time and plan for a flexible cast. Participating in a Christmas play is often just as special to people as watching one.Put on a Christmas Play This Year!




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