Drama
Drama/Music
When I was a lay leader at the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, I was asked to put together a pick-up drama group which became known as the Mundane Players. A partner and I were the primary writers and we used drama to introduce humor, intrigue, suspense and emotion into the services. The performances were so popular that the minister began listing them in the order of service. In numerous settings since, I have used drama to help show the places where we as human beings brush up against one another, where our emotions are real, where our spirits are open.
Several times now, I have substituted a sermon-length drama for a sermon, selecting a pick-up group of actors and allowing that to function as the service. This has been a good way to introduce history into our pulpit as well as a good tool when trying to talk about people’s attitudes, perhaps around race or some other oppression.
This is an area where I would like to continue to work and grow, perhaps finding a small group who would be willing to be co-creators of these resources. The dramatic form is one that leads itself to the kind of contemporary worship which people are interested in today
