Drama Archive
The Ark Drama Archive
Can you still get the scripts for the sketches? Are there copyright issues?
The following scripts have been rescued from the now-defunct Ark Cambridge website. Scripts are offered for public use, subject to following some simple conditions in the copyright notice.
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Ark Drama Copyright Notice
Please read this before you decide to download any of Ark Drama's scripts. These are the original conditions under which Ark Drama scripts were offered. Since the Ark Cambridge society now no longer exists, clauses 3 and 6 can no longer be monitored by the society, which means that you may not make any significant modifications to the scripts!
The term "scripts" refers to the text of these documents in their entirety, including this copyright notice.
These scripts may be performed free of charge in a Christian context, provided that no entrance fee is charged and that Ark's copyright and authorship are acknowledged in any programme or credits (written or otherwise).
Reasonable alterations may be made for a performance of these scripts (excluding this copyright notice) as long as their message is unchanged and Ark is notified of any significant modifications.
Permission is given to make copies of these scripts for rehearsals either in the scripts' present form or after the modifications allowed under paragraph 3.
Copies of the original unmodified scripts may also be distributed. Copies are not to be sold for profit in any medium.
Scripts not originally written by Ark Drama are published here by permission and this copyright notice still applies. Ark undertakes to inform the original authors of any significant modifications made, as described in paragraph 3.
Ark Drama Scripts
Ark Drama holds the copyright to these scripts. You may use them only subject to the conditions stated in the copyright notice.
The body is made up of many parts ...
Author: Ark Drama
Bible ref: 1 Cor. 12
Keywords: body, unity
A short skit on the parable of the wise and the foolish men.
Author: Ark Drama
Bible ref: Matt 7:24-27, Luke 6: 47-49
Keywords: parable, wise, foolish, rock, sand
Written for a church service celebrating the diversity in the Christian Church. Takes a light hearted look at the subject using the Duck Billed Platypus as its talking point.
Author: Tim Kelby
Bible ref:
Keywords: diversity, creation, Noah, platypus
A sketch set in a self help group for people who can't cope with the rate of change of today's society. God, of course, is unchanging.
Author: Ark Drama
Bible ref:
Keywords: change, unchanging
There are many options out there for the spiritually minded. However, only Christianity offers the real solution. This sketch sees a confused individual seeking enlightenment in a supermarket of religions.
Author: Ark Drama
Bible ref:
Keywords: other faiths, uniqueness of Christianity
Written for the Make Poverty History campaign in the style of the classic 1980's sit-com.
Author: Ark Drama
Bible ref:
Keywords: free trade, EU presidency, G8 summit
A sketch about the peace of God and the stress of modern life. Three businessmen discuss their new, revolutionary antidote to stress.
Author: Ark Drama
Bible ref: Matt 11:28
Keywords: stress, modern life, burden