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Drama opens up questions rather than proclaiming answers. It illuminates the different viewpoints on a story, and engages young and old together. Churches are using sketches, plays and pantomimes to engage people with the Bible and with the outworking of faith in everyday life. Christian theatre companies are touring thought-provoking productions and running workshops in schools and prisons. This section shares examples of these, and also signposts mainstream plays which take faith as their topic. See also the sections below on plays for key points of the Christian year. |
Drama can illuminate Bible stories or show the challenges of Christian living - and so can hymns - but do the approaches complement or contradict? ArtServe trustee Kit Harbottle reflects on this in a guest article for the 
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, 