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Easter Plays

Powerful, Christ-centered Easter scripts that portray the cross, the resurrection, and their impact on real lives in ways audiences will never forget.

The Day Jesus Was Crucified

Category: Easter Plays

This is a collection of Six (6) Monologues that look at the thoughts and emotions of some of the characters involved in or were witnesses to the crucifixion of Christ. Included are...

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Amazing Love

Category: Easter Plays

Mary Walters is a young single Christian woman caught up in an adulterous affair with a married man. She is experiencing high levels of guilt and condemnation. Like so many of us,...

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Anno Domini: In The Year of Our Lord

Anno Domini: In The Year of Our Lord

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 20-40 Minutes
  • Cast: 3 Females | 10 Males | Extras (non-speaking)
  • Audience: Teens and Adults
  • Genre: Biblical Drama
  • Setting: Blank Stage With Spotlight
  • Themes: Easter, Crucifixion
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Jesus Is Here

Jesus Is Here

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 45 Minutes
  • Cast: 2 Females | 15 Males | Plus Extras (Males and/or Females)
  • Audience: Teens and Adults
  • Genre: Biblical Drama
  • Setting: Empty Stage With Props
  • Themes: Easter, Crucifixion
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The Fourth Cross

The Fourth Cross

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 45 Minutes
  • Cast: 4 Males | 3 Females | 1 Male/Female
  • Audience: Teens and Adults
  • Genre: Biblical Drama
  • Setting: A House in Jerusalem (Antique)
  • Themes: Easter, Crucifixion
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What Easter Means To Me

What Easter Means To Me

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 30 Minutes
  • Cast: 3 Males | 2 Females | 1 Teenage Girl
  • Audience: Teens and Adults
  • Genre: Contemporary Easter Drama
  • Setting: Bare Stage with a Stool
  • Themes: Easter, Crucifixion, Monologues
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Jesus, The Anointed One (Yeshua Ha Mashiach)

Jesus, The Anointed One (Yeshua Ha Mashiach)

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 60 Minutes
  • Cast: 3 Males | 1 Male/Female | Poet | Plus extras (Some with speaking parts)
  • Audience: Teens and Adults
  • Genre: Biblical and Contemporary Drama
  • Setting: Empty Stage | Park
  • Themes: Easter, Crucifixion
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Jesus At The Sanhedrin

Jesus At The Sanhedrin

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 60 Minutes
  • Cast: 4 Males | 1 Teenage Boy | Plus extras
  • Audience: Teens and Adults
  • Genre: Biblical Drama
  • Setting: Streets of Jerusalem | Outside a Temple
  • Themes: Easter, Crucifixion
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An Easter Story

An Easter Story

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 45-60 Minutes
  • Cast: 10 Males | 10 Females | Plus extras
  • Audience: Teens & Adults
  • Genre: Contemporary Easter Drama
  • Setting: Office Setting, with appropriate furniture and amenities. There should be enough space out front for additional scenes that take place in the dream state.
  • Themes: easter, crucifixion
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The Resurrection

The Resurrection

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 60 Minutes
  • Cast: 4 Males | 2 Females | Plus extras
  • Audience: Teens & Adults
  • Genre: Biblical Mystery Drama
  • Setting: The entire play takes place outdoors.
  • Themes: easter, crucifixion, mystery, detectives
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The Day Jesus Was Crucified

The Day Jesus Was Crucified

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 30 Minutes
  • Cast: 5 Males | 1 Female
  • Audience: Teens & Adults
  • Genre: Biblical Drama
  • Setting: The stage will be bare through each monologue.
  • Themes: easter, crucifixion, monologues
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The Lord's Table

The Lord's Table

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 60 Minutes
  • Cast: 12 Males | 2 Females | Plus extras
  • Audience: Teen & Adults
  • Genre: Contemporary and Biblical Drama
  • Setting: The Lord’s table is positioned Front-Stage Right where it remains for the entire play. It has a Bible, hymnal, and some gospel CDs. There is another table Front-Stage Left. The rest of the stage is the living room with an area separated for kitchen/dining.
  • Themes: easter, crucifixion, marriage, infidelity, forgiveness
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It Is Finished

It Is Finished

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 30-45 Minutes
  • Cast: 11 Males | 2 Females
  • Audience: Teens & Adults
  • Genre: Biblical Drama
  • Setting: No elaborate setting necessary, but proper lighting would be an asset. A chair or two here and there, some palm trees, three crosses that should be able to stand upright on stage, and a few rocks.
  • Themes: easter, crucifixion
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Amazing Love

Amazing Love

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 40-70 Minutes
  • Cast: 7 Males | 5 Females | Plus Extras (Non-Speaking Roles)
  • Audience: Teens & Adults
  • Genre: Contemporary and Biblical Drama
  • Setting: The stage is a living room setting with an area separated for kitchen/dining, which is later converted to a biblical setting by removing all the furniture. The biblical setting will have an old couch upstage right in a corner.
  • Themes: easter, crucifixion
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The Perfect Gift Part II

The Perfect Gift Part II

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 70-90 Minutes
  • Cast: 6 Males | 4 Females | Plus Extras (non-speaking roles)
  • Audience: Teen & Adults
  • Genre: Contemporary Drama
  • Setting: The play takes place mostly in a church auditorium. It is a small church, and the Pastor’s office is a makeshift cubicle Stage Right with a small desk, an office chair behind the desk, and two regular chairs in front.
  • Themes: easter, crucifixion, forgiveness
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The Flight Before Easter

The Flight Before Easter

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 70-90 Minutes
  • Cast: 5 Males | 6 Females | Plus Extras
  • Audience: Teens & Adults
  • Genre: Contemporary Drama
  • Setting: Airport terminal with accompanying signs and sounds. There should be two signs reading “Terminal 1” and “Terminal 2” as well as signs pointing to entrances, exist, restrooms, and cafeteria.
  • Themes: easter, crucifixion, contemporary drama
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The Final Journey

The Final Journey

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 70-90 Minutes
  • Cast: 17 Males | 4 Females | Plus Extras (some with speaking roles | some children).
  • Audience: Teens & Adults
  • Genre: Biblical Drama
  • Setting: The stage is bare except for a few palm trees and rocks. This is the typical biblical outdoor setting, which will represent many different areas where Jesus walked or stopped on his final journey. Stage right could depict a mountainside. Stage left could represent the inner or outer courts of a temple.
  • Themes: easter, crucifixion
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Jesus On Trial

Jesus On Trial

By Cleveland O. McLeish
  • Length: 45-60 Minutes
  • Cast: 8 Males | 1 Female
  • Audience: Teens & Adults
  • Genre: Biblical Drama
  • Setting: This play takes place in a courtroom setting. The Judge should be positioned on a high-rise desk. There should be two tables and chairs for the Prosecutor and the Defense, and a witness stand. The audience represents the courtroom.
  • Themes: easter, crucifixion, courtroom drama, trial
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