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 to about 90 minutes. If your week has eight different education groups and each one performs a 10-minute-long skit, it will take an hour and twenty minutes (plus setup times, etc.) for the group performances alone, 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
• If the dialogue or narration is important, make sure the people speaking use a microphone

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, fast forward, 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