Without Beginning or End

This Easter storytelling drama follows Sandra as she shares the never-ending story of Jesus with a group of children. The story spans from Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem to His miracles, teachings, and growing influence, leading to His betrayal, crucifixion, and burial. Just when the children think the story is over, Sandra reveals the resurrection, proving that Jesus’ story never ends.

Through narration and poetic reflections, the play emphasizes that Jesus is eternal, holy, and unchanging, offering hope and salvation for all who believe.

Theme: The Holy and unchanging God is without beginning or end

Minimum Cast:

1. Sandra – The storyteller (late teen to any age)
2. Child 1 – Young child to early teen
3. Child 2 – Young child to early teen
4. Child 3 – Up to 8 years old

Optional Roles:

5. Off-stage Voice – Narrates certain parts (optional)
6. Additional Children – Non-speaking roles as listeners in the audience or on stage

The cast size can be expanded by adding more non-speaking children who react to the story, making the scene feel more interactive and engaging.

Set, costumes, lighting: Standard

Sound: Wireless mics would be useful

Run-time: 10 minutes

Sample of script:

Actors enter the stage.

Sandra: Come, children, let me read you the story without beginning or end.

Child 1: “Without beginning”? How can that be? Everything has to start somewhere . . .

Child 2: . . . and end somewhere too.

Child 3: If there’s no beginning, and no end, then it can’t be a story, now can it?

Sandra: Yes, it can, and it must! Sit with me, listen carefully please!

(Sandra seats all actors.)

Sandra: This story begins before the beginning of time and carries on over the centuries, with stops along the way in stables, in workshops, on painful Golgotha hills, and in silent tombs.

(Sandra opens book and starts to read.)

Sandra: One day, more than 2,000 years ago, in the very ordinary town of Nazareth, a very young, very ordinary girl of 12 was given strange, exciting, and frightening news. You see, this young girl, Mary, would soon be a mother. And as though that was not strange, exciting, and frightening enough in itself, there was more . . . much more, to the news. An angel explained to Mary that the father of this child was to be . . . God Himself. Although worried and concerned, as would be any young girl, Mary accepted the news. So did Joseph, the man Mary was to marry.

And it just so happened that Mary and Joseph were required to go to Bethlehem just at the time that the baby was to be born. The story tells how the little town of Bethlehem was full to overflowing, as people from all over the region had come to pay their taxes. How dreadful that the only place for the baby to be born was a cold, dark, dirty stable, and that a place fit only for animals must be the birthplace of the tiny first son of Mary—and of God. A baby boy. And they called His name Jesus.

How amazing, the witnesses to the birth! Angels with music and a message fit for, meant for, a King. Kings from the Orient, with regal robes and expensive gifts. Shepherds, the lowly and coarse, with neither gift nor garment of consequence, except for the love and joy in their hearts. And animals—the unassuming—donating their warmth to the Child and his family. A lamb.

(All actors freeze as offstage voice speaks.)

Offstage Voice: I was merely one of the temple sheep
In Bethlehem that day.
A couple came and bedded down,
In my stable, in the hay.
A baby boy was born that night
All nature did applaud!
The woman spoke, as though in prayer,
”Behold the Son of God!”

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