The Marietta Church of God in Marietta, Ohio posted this video of the Christmas program from 2020, where they performed our script “The Junkman’s Christmas Dinner.” Enjoy! Click the link below to watch. Facebook video
Here is a video from the First Baptist Church in Danville, Georgia of the church’s performance of my script “Christmas Leads Us Home” using the unique no-lines-to-learn “Play/Act” soundtrack. (Get the script and soundtrack here.) WHAT WE OFFER: Dramatic Plays: Our plays range from 20 minutes all the way up to 80 minutes. They are written to engage the viewer, make them… Read more »
2012 was the first year that I made available the skit “The Ultimate Gift.” Right after Christmas I found this short film online that adapted it for video. They did a good job, making their own soundtrack, since they altered the script a little, to accommodate their available cast. The video notes say “Adapted and Filmed by the members of… Read more »
“Live From Downtown” Written by Frederick Passmore Copyright 2001 Sheep Laughs Records Synopsis: A reporter doing a live interview on location during Christmas tries to get passing shoppers to share their holiday cheer. He encounters a series of comically hostile or just plain nutty characters before a sympathetic person helps him recover from his ordeal and shares the true source of holiday… Read more »
“Redemption In The Wings” by Frederick Passmore copyright 2009 Story synopsis: Christmas is nearing, and the play being rehearsed for the guests of a homeless shelter is looming as a disaster. Plaguing the director are problems she feels ill-equipped to handle: the demanding actress playing Mary is a Hollywood diva sentenced to community service; the actor playing Gabriel is nowhere… Read more »
“Christmas Leads Us Home” Story Page written by Frederick Passmore copyright 2013 Sheep Laughs Publications Synopsis: A new play in the “No Lines to Learn” narrated format, this script (approximately 50 minutes) deals with a mother’s difficult relationship with a wayward daughter, as well as her fears for the soul of a son in the military. A flashback to a family… Read more »
“The Christmas Family” A Journey of Imagination and Hope. by Frederick Passmore copyright 2006 Synopsis: In a script that is performed without actor lines, only narration supplied on the soundtrack CD, a young crippled boy in a children’s home spends Christmas Eve listening to the Nativity Story on the radio. As his imagination pictures the scene, the audience sees it acted… Read more »
“The Ultimate Gift” Written by Frederick Passmore Copyright 2015 Sheep Laughs Records Synopsis: At a meeting of a technology company days before Christmas, three inventors present their inventions for the next year’s “Ultimate Gift.” In each of the three five-to-six-minute skit sequences, a way-out device is demonstrated that causes havoc on the group, with truly hysterical results! A cleaning lady that… Read more »
“The Great Church Robbery” Written by Frederick Passmore Copyright 1999 Sheep Laughs Records Synopsis: This short poem, a Christian version of “The Grinch” story, can done as a dramatic reading using the background music and sound effects, or acted out to the narrated version on the same CD. In it, we see a bitter old man living next door to… Read more »
“The Junk Man’s Christmas Dinner” Written by Frederick Passmore Copyright 2016 Sheep Laughs Studios Synopsis: A hermit that lives by a junkyard is spending Christmas Eve feeling sorry for himself. But his solitude is interrupted by a visitor worse off than him, and he learns that the key to the joy of the season is giving what you can. Includes… Read more »