Festivals

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Mothers Day/Mothering Sunday
A Mother's Day Monologue	Dur: 6min	D	1F	A monologue that shares the joys and heartaches of motherhood. Adoption, miscarriage and stillbirth are all touched upon in this dramatic, yet affirming script. (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)
Fred and Annie	Dur: 7min	L	2M/F	A few days out from Mother’s Day, two young people meet and discuss what they are going to do this year (to avoid previous disasters). (Author: Paul Milson)
Many Hats	Dur: 10min	L	1F	Women wear many hats throughout their day. This drama is an amusing way to encourage other women while emphasizing that it's not easy. This is best used during a women's retreat or luncheon. (Author: Terri Savage)
Mom's Day Off	Dur: 10min	L	1F	A monologue of a young mother on the phone to her own mother on mother’s day.  She relates the mishaps that follow her young children and their father trying to do the chores she normally does.  Then she tells her own mother how much she misses her because this is the first Mother’s Day that they are apart. (Author: Joanne Miller)
Mothering Sunday	Dur: 12min	L	3M, 4F, 9M/F	Four girls discuss the problems of Mums, but find that the solution isn't quite what they expected. (Author: Stuart Neale)
Supermom	Dur: 7min	D	1F or 3F	A woman admits to being unable to cope with life as a Super Mom and in the process discovers what she must do to be an effective mom. Going it alone is no longer an option.
The Inside Story	Dur: 7min	D	3F, 1M	A widowed mother and her two grown daughters are clearing out the attic in preparation for the mother's move to a smaller home. The task underscores the resentment the older daughter feels toward her sister. (Author: Mary Anne Brannon)
The Interview	Dur: 7min	L	1M, 2F	A woman applies for a job that appears to require almost superhuman capabilities. As the interview progresses, we realise it is what mothers do all their lives. (Author: Cooper Family)
The Rest Room	Dur: 7min	L	1M, 3F	A mother locks herself in the rest room and refuses to come out until her family agrees to do their share of the work around the house. (Author: Fred Lane)
The Visit	Dur: 7min		2F	An elderly woman lives for the visits of her daughter. (Author: Judy Sadler)
Three Hearts and a Sweatsuit	Dur: 8min	D	4F	An easy to produce Mother's Day or Mother/Daughter event. This drama presents the hearts of three generations and how, in some ways, the more things change the more they stay the same in regards to Mother/Daughter relationships. (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)

Fathers Day
A Father's Love	Dur: 7min	D	2M, 1F	A couple meets up with a carpenter who gets them thinking about what an important role their fathers have played in their lives up to that point. In a dramatic twist, it is discovered that the man they've met up with is no ordinary carpenter. (Author: Cindy Hagen)
A Great Gift for Dad	Dur: 7min	D	2F, 1M	It's the weekend of Father's Day, and 2 sisters are going over the normal Father's Day stories.  This year, things are different because they both are leaving home...one is getting married and the other is going to college.  This year all dad wants is their presence. (Author: Fred Lane)
Circle of Love	Dur: 7min	D	3M	Uncle Henare was rescued from the gutter as a street kid. Now he devotes his life to helping kids who are not making it....including his own daughter. (Author: John McNeil)
Father's Day	Dur: 6min	L	3M, 1F	A new husband is worried whether he is ready for fatherhood (Author: Tom Zander)
Father's Day Cards	Dur: 7min	D	2M	A young father sends his new son his thoughts in a card, while an older father, perhaps the same one (?) does the same. Purpose: To make the audience -- especially the fathers and the father-wannabees -- reconsider their priorities and their relationship with their children. (Author: John Wayne Samples)
Father's Day Cards Revisited	Dur: 9min	D	2M	An older father sends his dad his thoughts in a card, while his father, perhaps the does the same. Purpose: To make the audience -- especially the fathers and the father-wannabees -- reconsider their priorities and their relationship with their children. (Author: John Wayne Samples)
Handling Him	Dur: 7min	D	1M, 1F	A young couple discusses discipline; only it applies to her grandfather who is living with them, which is not evident until the end. (Author: Joanne Miller)
I Remember	Dur: 7min	D	1M, 1F	A young wife puts up decorations for Father’s Day.  Each one holds a memory for her of her own father.  Ends with her announcement to her husband that he is going to be a father. (Author: Joanne Miller)
Just Testing	Dur: 7min	L	1M, 1F	A young couple have their future neatly planned out only to discover a baby, who was not planned for, is on the way. (Authors: John & Joanne Miller)
Robot Father	Dur: 8min	L	1M, 4C	The Mad Professor just can't program enough features into his creation for it to take the place of a real dad. (Author: Gwyneth Bedford)
Search for the Hero	Dur: 7min	L	1M, 1F, 2C	What's life really like for the middle-aged super-hero with family responsibilities? (Author: John McNeil)
The Key	Dur: 4min	D	N + V	When we take the Father's name for our own as children of God, that becomes the key to our identity and inheritance. But as this parable shows, by misusing God's name, we rob ourselves. (Author: John McNeil)
The Pensioner and the Mission	Dur: 7min	D	1M/F	Festivals are a lonely time for many. The pensioner goes to the City Mission to share in a community dinner, but even the hard work of the Mission staff to provide a happy occasion cannot disguise his loneliness. Although written for Christmas, this could easily be adapted for Father's Day. (Author: John McNeil)
The Prodigal Father	Dur: 6min	H	1N	Once upon a time a father ran away from his two sons. There were tragic consequences, but there is hope at the end. This can be done as a monologue, or a mime with narration. (Author: John McNeil)
The World According to Mrs Brown	Dur: 7min	D	1M, 1F	Ralph Lindstrum works too hard. It takes the unique outlook of the cleaning woman to help him get his priorities straight. Theme: Ignoring the things in life that are the most important. Good Father's Day Sketch. (Author: Christin Kuck)
Thinking of You	Dur: 5min	D	1M, 1F, 1M/F	A father remembers a son he's never met and a son wants to know more about the man who only wished life for him. (Author: Benjamin J. Stephens)

September 11

Blessing in Disguise	Dur: 7min	D	1F	A monologue in which a daughter is on the cell phone to her mother. Through a series of mishaps, she has missed her plane to get home for Thanksgiving, and she begins to question why God didn't answer her prayer to catch her plane. Finally her father gets on the phone and he is crying. He wasn't aware that she had missed her flight. He just saw a special report on TV that her flight had crashed with no survivors. (Author: Joanne Miller)
Courage Beyond Measure	Dur: 7min	D	2N	A readers theatre meditation on the courage of those who lost their lives helping when the World Trade Centre collapsed. (Author: Mike Humphrey)
False Alarm	Dur: 5min	D	2F	Two women work associates hear an explosion that puts them in a panic because they fear a terrorist attack It turns out to be a false alarm, but the experience causes them to talk about their abilities to be "heroes". (Author: Fred Lane)
Operation Tall Justice	Dur: 7min	D	6M	Operation Tall Justice is put into place after a threat of terrorism. What will be the final response? (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)
Renewal	Dur: 7min	D	3M/F	A reflection on the September 11 attack, involving a terrorist, a survivor and a Christian. (Author: John Cosper)
Three Month Hope	Dur: 7min	D	1F	This drama takes a look at the one-year anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks from the perspective of a mother whose child was conceived just before the World Trade Center attacks. She remembers the past and has a renewed reason to hope for a bright future. Suitable for Patriot's Day or other 9-11 remembrances. (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)

Halloween
Redeeming the Day	Dur: 5min	D	1F	Stella answers a phone call from her friend Joan. It's halloween night and Stella has decided not to participate in any halloween events. She is challenged to look at the day from a new perspective. (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)

Thanksgiving
A Matter of Praise	Dur: 5min	D	3N	A Reader's Theater script dealing with the subject of praise, seeking to define it and make its practice more understandable. May find uses in both a praise service or as a special Thanksgiving reading. (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)
Beyond The Blue	Dur: 8min	D	2F	Months following her mother's death, Marianne is sorting through her mother's things. Her task is to get the house ready for a tenant, something she's dreaded. (Author: Mary Anne Brannon)
Blessing in Disguise	Dur: 7min	D	1F	A monologue in which a daughter is on the cell phone to her mother. Through a series of mishaps, she has missed her plane to get home for Thanksgiving, and she begins to question why God didn't answer her prayer to catch her plane. Finally her father gets on the phone and he is crying. He wasn't aware that she had missed her flight. He just saw a special report on TV that her flight had crashed with no survivors. (Author: Joanne Miller)
Consider the Birds - a Thanksgiving drama	Dur: 6min	D	1M, 1F, 1C	Sydney is worried at the prospect of losing his job, and can't face the thought of a Thanksgiving service. (Author: Jim Hatherly)
Full or Thankful	Dur: 10min	L	4M, 2F, 2C	A Thanksgiving lesson in contrasts. See Thanksgiving through the eyes of a hurried, harried family - then through the eyes of a poor but grateful man. (Author: Betty Jo Mathis)
Gratitude Games	Dur: 10min	L	10M/F	A televised broadcast of the Gratitude Games pits contestants against each other as they vie for top spot in the overall demonstration of gratitude. When a grandma and her granddaughter stumble onto the field by accident - everyone learns something about being thankful. (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)
Happy Thanksgiving	Dur: 10min	D	3M, 2F	A daughter and her husband are preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving with her parents.  The daughter has also invited her Uncle Charlie, her mother’s brother.  Her mother is not aware of this invitation.  The mother and her brother have not spoken for 7 years.  The daughter is hoping to bring about a reconciliation, however she has been unable to reach her uncle by phone to confirm that he will come.  The parents arrive and the daughter reveals that she wants to do something the family used to do.  Each person draws a name of someone else who is present and says something nice about that person.  Just as they are about to begin the doorbell rings and Uncle Charlie arrives.  There is a reconciliation, and then they all draw names again. (Author: Joanne Miller)
Hinderfella	Dur: 12min	D	2M, 2F, 3M/F, 1C + V	The real son of a moderately wealthy family feels slighted when the family adopts two more children. His adopted brothers and sisters have learned the idea of being thankful, now they must help Hinderfella begin to understand how much he has to be thankful for. Setting and circumstances are altered in this revised look at a fairy-tale classic. (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)
It's Not About the Turkey	Dur: 15min	L	4M, 3M/F	Three friends, aided by several prominent historical figures, discuss what they think Thanksgiving is all about. (Author: Jennifer Duncan)
Northside Gratitude	Dur: 12min	D	5C, 1N	A group of orphan children discuss why they should be thankful and learn a lesson from a new boy who has hope in a Father he's never seen. (Glenn A. Hascall)
Not Getting What You Don't Want	Dur: 4min	D	2M	Gilbert only wants to talk about his disappointments. He believes Charles is agreeing with him, but is Gilbert really listening to what Charles is saying. A lesson in Thanksgiving and contentment. (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)
Thankfulness	Dur: 5min	D	4N	A Reader's Theater script of readings on the topic of thankfulness, taken from the New Living Translation. (Author: Cindi Grovhoug)
Thanksgiving Nic Nacs	Dur: 7min	L	3M, 1F, 3M/F	Several characters used for decoration at Thanksgiving are finding themselves very ungrateful for their place in life. In a humorous way they learn that they have much to re-learn about being grateful. Suitable for either live cast or puppets. (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)
Thanksgiving for Silas	Dur: 12min	D	Up to 25C (can be fewer)	A group of kids attend an annual community thanksgiving dinner - none of them want to be there. They speculate on what it was like to have been a part of the first community thanksgiving meal in their town. The discovery of a journal tells them the story of a boy named Silas that helped everyone acquire an attitude of gratitude. (Glenn A. Hascall)
THANKS-Me	Dur: 12min	L	12C, 1M/F, 1VO	THANKS-ME, a learning machine, helps a class of children to understand the origins and meaning of Thanksgiving. (Glenn A. Hascall)
The Day Perception Met Reality	Dur:10min	L	2M, 2F, 1VO	One morning Judy meets three sets of parents, but which set is her real parents and why hadn’t she noticed them before? A lesson in gratitude and contentment. (Author:Glenn Hascall)
The Right Reasons	Dur: 7min	D	1M, 1F	A wife finds a very old diary in the attic and reads part of it to her husband.  It’s written by a frontier wife in the 1840s on their Day of Thanks. (Author: Joanne Miller)
The Thanksgiving Turkey is Out There	Dur: 7min	L	1M, 1F +V	Mulder is convinced that the thanksgiving turkey reveals another case of alien invasion. (Author: Christin Kuck)
Three Month Hope	Dur: 7min	D	1F	This monologue takes a look at the one-year anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks from the perspective of a mother whose child was conceived just before the World Trade Center attacks. She remembers the past and has a renewed reason to hope for a bright future. Suitable for Patriot's Day or other 9-11 remembrances. (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)
Yes, I'm Grateful	Dur: 7min	D	3F, 1N	Rosie is bitter and angry about her broken leg. She complains and is very selfish about her situation, not realising that Janet's offer of help comes at great cost. (Author: Michelle Pitman)