Mime

Breaking the Chains	Dur: 6min	D	4M, 1M/F	Based on the Seven Deadly Sins. The devil binds us with chains we forge for ourselves. Jesus can break those chains, but at a cost. (Author: John McNeil)
NEW! Don't Just Follow the Crowd	Dur: 4min	L	4M/F	A mime: Peer pressure is powerful, and we sometimes just do what other people are doing because it looks really cool. (Author: Julia Wheeler)
Four Horsemen	Dur: 6min	D	3M/F	A mime/dance, based on Revelation 6:1-11, Matthew 24:1-14, and 'Mars', the 1st movement from 'The Planets', by Gustav Holst. (Author: John McNeil)
NEW! Good Enough	Dur: 5min	D	1M, 4M/F	A mime: Isn't being good, good enough to go to heaven? It doesn't matter what you've done, how many people you've helped, who you've been nice to - the only way you are going to get to heaven is through Jesus. (Author: Julia Wheeler)
Lead Us Not...	Dur: 6min	D	1M	The ways in which addiction to pornography can overcome us are portrayed in this mime. (Author: John McNeil)
Life (mime)	Dur: 4min	D	4-6 M/F	Eat, sleep, work, party. Then Death. Surely there is more to life than just this? (Author: Julia Weaver)
NEW! Masks	Dur: 5min	D	1F, 2M, 3M/F	A mime: We all wear masks- try and be someone we are not, or who we think other people want to see. But with Jesus the only person he wants you to be is you. (Author: Julia Wheeler)
No Strings Attached	Dur: 7min	D	4M/F	A silent skit which mimes a marionette play. The Puppeteer represents Puppeteer, or the world’s influential control. This script uses two dancers to represent humanity, and a clown to represent Jesus Christ, and His power to overcome. (Author: Myke Merrill)
NEW! Ropes	Dur: 6min	D	1M, 4M/F	A mime. All sorts of good things are on offer in life, like money, fame. But they only tie you down, and pull you apart; none of them let you be free, except Jesus. (Author: Julia Wheeler)
Tall Timber	Dur: 7min	L	2M, 6M/F	A mimed version of the story of Zaccheus. (Author: Michele Pitman)
NEW! The Box	Dur: 5min	L	3M/F	A mime. Two people become stuck in a box (symbol of their sin) and try to find a way out. One person tries on own strength, and fails. The other is shown the Bible, and manages to escape. (Author: Julia Wheeler)
The Chair	Dur: 5min	L	5M/F	Illustrating how we get curious about sin, so we try it, but then we become stuck in sin and cannot get out. (Author: Julia Weaver)
The Doctor's Surgery	Dur: 3min	L	7M/F	A very funny mime, showing (very loosely) how Jesus took on the sins of the world, by being one man in a Doctor's surgery taking all the ills of the patients. (Author: Julia Weaver)
The Pensioner and the Mission	Dur: 7min	D	1M/F	The pensioner goes to the City Mission to share in the community Christmas dinner, but even the hard work of the Mission staff to provide a happy occasion cannot disguise his loneliness. Although written initially for Christmas, this script could be adapted for year-round use. (Author: John McNeil)
The Rise and Fall of Sir Jaspar Hardmaster	Dur: 10min	L	3M, 1F, 1C	A script done in the style of a silent movie melodrama. In which our heroine is saved from the clutches of a wicked landlord with the help of a ministry which aims to give resources to the poor. (Author: John McNeil)
Steamed Up	Dur: 4min	L	1M, 1F	A husband and wife who are at odds with each other find romance rekindled as they do the ironing. (Author: John McNeil)
The Arch	Dur: 5min	L	Up to 10 M/F	A mime on the theme that Jesus is the capstone of the building. (Author: Michele Pitman)
The Chalkboard	Dur: 4min	D	7 M/F	No matter how many times you mess up, and no matter how hard you try to forget it, God always comes to the rescue. This mume was written to go with the song "Grace", by Silas Bald. It works best using black (ultraviolet) light, which illuminates the clothes, but leaves the performers dark. (Author: Sarah Musselwhite)
NEW! The Sculpture	Dur: 5min	D	4M, 2F, 3M/F	A mime. A simple reconstruction of the scene at Calvary. It is not obvious at first what is going on, but by the end all is clear. (Author: Julia Wheeler)
Thirsty!	Dur: 7min	D	1F, 2M, 3+M/F	A mimed version of the story of Jesus and the woman at the well, with references to Moses bringing water from a rock. (Author: Michele Pitman)
You Were There	Dur: 4min	D	4M, 3M/F	This is a pantomimed drama, with symbolic meaning. Its purpose is to promote the healthy spiritual habit of worship. (Author: Mark Shell)
Mime with narration
Anunciation 1999	Dur: 7min	H	1N, 1M, 3F, 3+M/F	A powerful drama that considers what probably would have happened if the Anunciation by the angel Gabriel to Mary - that she was to bear the baby Jesus - had been made in 1999. (Author: John McNeil)
Coming to the Feast of the King	Dur: 8min	D	11+ M/F	People invited to a feast of the King find they cannot enter until they leave their baggage at the cross-shaped doorway. An allegory on John 4:16 ("I am the way, the truth and the life".) (Author: Marjorie Kennedy)
Dinner Time	Dur: 8min	L	1N, 1M, 1F	A narrator tells a story which is acted out by a man and his wife.  They progress from newlyweds to a couple with young children to empty nesters.  Each stage is illustrated by the dinner table, which changes from romantic to chaotic to sublime. (Author: Joanne Miller)
Father McEvoy's Crib	Dur: 6min	D	N+V	Father McEvoy, a humble parish priest, discovers a live baby in the Christmas crib he is preparing. (Author: John McNeil)
God is...	Dur: 7min	D	1M, 2F, 1N	A narrated mime which looks at the various ways God is envisaged by people. (Author: Kevin Penner)
Man is ...	Dur: 7min	D	1N, 4M/F	A narrated mime which asks, "what is man, really?" (Author: Kevin Penner)
Money Can't Buy	Dur: 8min	L	1M, 1F, 1M/F, 3V	A huge win in the lottery brings a new set of trappings for Bob, but his unhappy lifestyle doesn't change a bit. (This script is mostly mime, with just a couple of small speaking parts.) (Author: Andre Harden)
Reconciliation	Dur: 8min	D	2M, 1F, 1M/F, 1N	A narrated mime tells the Gospel story, starting with the fall of Adam and Eve. (Author: Kevin Penner)
The Garden	Dur: 10min	L	2N + V	A Christmas play for all-year-round. This parable, in which the animals destroy their park through disobedience to the Gardener, attempts to put the need for the Christ-child into context of the Fall and need for redemption. (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 Killing of Christmas	Dur: 3min	D	N + V	Consumerism strikes back. (Author: John McNeil)
The Light of the World	Dur: 5min	D	1N, 1M, 4M/F	A multi-media presentation proclaiming Jesus as the light of the world, and that through him, Christians are to also be a light to the world. (Author: John McNeil)
The Parable of the Lost Daughter	Dur: 7min	L	1N, 3F	The parable of the lost child set in the Wild West (with a slight change of gender). (Author: Andy Lund)
The Pottery, Pliable	Dur: 10min	D	1M, 4+M/F	A combination Mime/Drama. The mime players represent disobedient clay in the workshop of the Master Potter as narration and music sew the scene together in this visual demonstration of what it means to have clay honor the Potter's wisdom by their obedience. (Author: Glenn A. Hascall)
The Prodigal Father	Dur: 6min	B	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)
NEW! The Shooting	Dur: 5min	D	2M, 2M/F	A dramatic monologue reconstructing a courtroom drama in which the Judge's son takes your sentence. A modern retelling of what Jesus did for us. (Author: Julia Wheeler)
The Two Healings	Dur: 5min	D	2N + V	Based on Luke 8:40-56. (Author: John McNeil)