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There’s More in Your Puppet Scripts than Just Words

In my book, Experience Puppets, I spend time showing you how to prepare using a script in a performance. The idea is to practice it enough that you don’t have to read it while you perform. The book includes some strategies to help you accomplish that.

There’s more to a script than just reading and performing it. If that’s all you’re doing with your scripts, you’re missing out. What are some things you can do to get the most value out of the scripts you use?

Scripts contain all kinds of ideas that you can use to develop and write your own plays. While the script itself is copyrighted, ideas can’t be. Read through your scripts and see if you can come up with one or two ideas that you can develop into new scripts.

Your team could then work together to brainstorm ideas to include in the play, choose the ones you want to include, outline the play, and then write the play. The team could edit it, make suggestions, and rework it if needed. That would not only help build your team but it also supply new material at the same time.

Years ago, we did a script that talked about Christian One-a-Day vitamins. It was well written and we used it often. That play could easily be developed into a new and different play.

• Vitamins come in medicine type containers. Medicine is important to help heal you when you’re sick or injured. The Bible has principles and promises that can bring spiritual healing to people. A script “The Right Rx for What Ails You” could then be written.

• When writing the script, change the names, the setting, and the characters and you have a brand new script completely different from the original and uniquely fitted to your ministry.

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