How to Prepare a Skit for Talent Night (For Group Leaders)

Length

During a large week, Talent Night can easily get too long. We aim to keep the length of Talent Night under 2 hours. If your week has eight different education groups and each one performs a 10-minute skit, it will take an hour and twenty minutes (plus setup times, etc) already, before any individual gets a chance to perform a song.

We therefore ask you to:

• Keep your skit as short as possible (short is better), and absolutely do not exceed 5 minutes
• Please time your skit when you are practicing. Shorten it if it’s more than 5 minutes long!
• Don’t play a skit and then sing a song afterwards; do one or the other
• Start quickly when you get on stage, have all your props ready to go, and if you need a special setup for sound, let the MC and audio person know before the evening starts

Content of Skit

• Performances should be uplifting
• Good should win over evil, do not end on a depressing note
• Involve the whole group

Skit Ideas

Let the team come up with an original idea if possible, but if nobody can think of anything good, you could:

• Change the lyrics of a song and make it fit your camp experience (like “Country Roads of Shehaqua”)
• Play a Bible story but give it a special style, such as opera, silent movie, western, comedy, drama, ballet, high speed, slow motion, etc
• Illustrate something you learned this week from the Divine Principle, such as influence of spirit world, principle of restoration, Three Blessings, etc.
• Reenact something that happened at camp