Okay, it’s December. It’s Advent. Christmas is coming. But it’s also a pandemic, and church is back to being online, not in person. How are we going to have a Christmas pageant? It’s time for the Zoom Christmas Pageant! The Zoom Christmas Pageant! A few years back I wrote a Christmas play. Better to say […]
Christmas Play World Premier!
It really happened! I wrote a play (with a great deal of help from Matthew, Luke and John, and the kind permission of the folks at Crossway) and I got to see it produced. My friend Claudia in New Zealand said in the comments of an earlier post that she’d like to see it. So […]
Director’s Journal: Dress Rehearsal
Saturday afternoon. Dress rehearsal time. This is our last chance: 90 minutes to bring it all together before Sunday’s performance in worship. I opened in prayer and explained the game plan: first a run through, then costuming, then our dress rehearsal. A very tight hour and a half. But there was one thing to do before […]
Director’s Journal: Character Notes
As I said yesterday, at the fourth rehearsal of my church’s production of my new Christmas Play, I decided to be more directive in my directing. In this or any church play there are people who do not aspire to be actors. They just got drafted. Their whole aim might be to stand in the right place and […]
Director’s Journal: Run-Through?
This week we had our 4th rehearsal of my new Christmas Play. Next Saturday is the dress rehearsal. Sunday morning the show must go on. The agenda at this point should be a “run-through”. That is, the cast should perform the play, start to finish, without interruption. Then I would make some comments on places to improve. But putting on […]