Title: Creation – A Short Play
Characters:
Narrator
God
Heavenly Hosts
Narrator: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
(God enters)
God: Let there be light.
Narrator: And there was light.
(Heavenly Hosts enter)
God: Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
(Heavenly Hosts move to create the firmament)
Narrator: And God called the firmament Heaven.
God: Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.
(Heavenly Hosts move to create the land and seas)
Narrator: And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas.
God: Let the earth bring forth grass, and herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind.
(Heavenly Hosts create the plants and trees)
Narrator: And it was so.
God: Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night.
(Heavenly Hosts create the sun, moon, and stars)
Narrator: And it was so.
God: Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
(Heavenly Hosts create the fish and birds)
Narrator: And it was so.
God: Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind.
(Heavenly Hosts create the animals)
Narrator: And it was so.
God: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
(Heavenly Hosts create Adam)
Narrator: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
(Heavenly Hosts create Eve)
Narrator: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
(God and Heavenly Hosts exit)
Narrator: And on the seventh day, God rested from all his work which he had made.