The Trial
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Mary Writes...
'...let me say how much of a blessing you have been. You may not realize it but you have helped touch people's lives. I myself have been deeply touched. I can't seem to get parts of the play out of my mind. You know, it made it so real how we are all going to stand before the judgment seat of God. I pray that none of us will get left behind or found wanting.'
The Play....
Christian is standing Trial in the Court of Eternity. The Prosecutor seeks to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Christian has turned away beyond the point of redemption and that man should be destroyed once and for all.
The Characters.....
God Himself stands as Judge in this Trial and it soon becomes clear that the only thing that stands between man and eternal death is the Defence Attorney, Jesus Christ.
THE TRIAL seeks to do many things..
...it will sensitize you to the reality of being imperfect, it will open your eyes to the simple truth of salvation and what it means to be saved and, most importantly, it will point us to the true source of perfection.
Cast: 11 males, 7 females. Some can play multiple characters.
Audience: Teens & Adults
Genre: Contemporary Courtroom Drama
Sample Scene
GOD: Next witness.
PROSECUTOR: I call to the stand, Mrs. Marie Christian.
(Gasp from the audience. Mrs. Christian enters and walks to the witness stand.)
PROSECUTOR: Mrs. Christian, do you promise to tell the truth
(Pause)
the whole truth
(pause)
and nothing but the truth.
(Pause. Mrs. Christian looks directly at Christian.)
PROSECUTOR: Mrs. Christian...
MARIE (snapping out of a trance): Yes, yes. I do.
PROSECUTOR: Please take a seat.
(Mrs. Christian sits.)
PROSECUTOR: Could you state for the record your relation to the
Defendant.
MARIE: I’m his wife.
PROSECUTOR: Do you have any kids?
MARIE: Yes, two children. A boy and a girl.
PROSECUTOR: Has the defendant been a good father, Mrs. Christian.
MARIE: He’s hardly home. He works most of the time and when he’s
not working, he’s out with his friends.
PROSECUTOR: What about Church?
MARIE: Sometimes only me and the kids go. He has to work on
Sundays too, he says.
PROSECUTOR: Has he been a good husband?
MARIE: You see this mark around my eye. He put it there.
(Christian jumps from his seat)
CHRISTIAN: It was your fault.
GOD: Mr. Christian.
CHRISTIAN: She was cheating on me.
GOD: BE STILL.
(Christian is shaken by the thunderous voice. He slowly takes his seat ashamed.)
GOD (to defense): You will control your client or I will charge
you both with contempt, understand.
(The defense nods.)
(God gestures for the Prosecutor to continue.)
PROSECUTOR: Tell us what happened?
MARIE: He was working late and I needed some company, so I invited
a friend over to stay with me. When Christian got home, he
just got in a jealous rage. My friend had to run for his
life.
PROSECUTOR: Were you having an affair?
MARIE: No. Christian has always been too jealous. And the worst
part is he hit me in front of the kids.
(Gasp from the audience.)
PROSECUTOR: Thank you Mrs. Christian. No further questions.
(Defense stands)
DEFENSE: Mrs. Christian. Did your husband ever hit you before this
time?
MARIE: No. But...
DEFENSE: How about anytime after?
MARIE: No. But he...
DEFENSE: Mrs. Christian, did your husband apologize to you any
time after the incident?
MARIE: Yes. But he didn’t mean it.
DEFENSE: How do you know?
MARIE: I just do.
DEFENSE: Didn’t my client catch you and your friend in a
compromising situation?
MARIE: No.
DEFENSE: Speak the truth!
MARIE: We were just cuddling.
DEFENSE: Cuddling. Just cuddling and you knew you had a jealous
husband. And you knew the exact time he would be home.
MARIE: He is the one with a problem...
DEFENSE: You provoked him Mrs. Christian and you did it
intentionally.
MARIE: No I didn’t...
DEFENSE: You did it to get back at him for being away from home so
much.
MARIE: I should be more important to him than his work.
DEFENSE: He works to maintain his family and you think you’re not
important.
MARIE: He doesn’t love me as he should.
DEFENSE: How do you know?
MARIE: If he loved me he wouldn’t hit me.
DEFENSE: He hit you because you provoked him. He apologized and
you didn’t accept. Maybe it is your love that should be
questioned.
MARIE: He should be humble at all times.
DEFENSE: Why?
MARIE: Because he professes to be a Christian.
DEFENSE: But human none the less.
(Pause)
No further questions your honour.
(God looks to the Prosecutor, who shakes his head.)
GOD: The witness may step down.
(Mrs. Christian steps down and walks towards the exit. As she’s about to pass the defense table she lunges at Christian and starts to strangle him.)
(The defense and the prosecutor pull her off him, after much struggle, and she runs through the exit crying. Christian too has tears in his eyes.)
Some friends and I from my church (I attend the Perrine Seventh-day Adventist Church in Miami) decided that there hadn't been a play in our church in quite a while. So 3-4 months after hard practice and some setbacks, we put the play on. It was warmly received. People loved the whole concept of your play. I'd say at least 200 people showed up ( I didn't expect that much) and I'm sure our efforts were blessed that night...thank you for writing this play, God Bless
Adam Gregorie
I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in a production of your play, THE TRIAL, that was performed by the Single's Ministry at our church, New Mt. Calvary Baptist church in Houston, Texas. The play was an overwhelming success and God really glorified himself; many lives were changed that night. Thanks so much, and God bless you.
Keisha David