Sample - Milk & Honey Bible Camp, Cabin 3

Here is the first page of my latest ten-minute play. You can view the full show by going to the Watch section of my website and viewing a recording of Northeastern University's 2019 production. If you are interested in producing the show and/or want to purchase the full script, contact me at ryan.jaime99@gmail.com

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SETTING: Milk and Honey Bible Camp, Cabin Three. Five beds are covered in a unique set of blankets, pillows, stuffed animals, suitcases, clothes, makeup cases, etc. Gold streamers, string lights, and other cheap decorations are strewn about. A paper banner hangs in the middle of the wall with the words of Isaiah 43:19 written on it in marker: “I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” Doodles of the wilderness border the banner.

AT RISE: JEN, ABBY, IMANI, OLIVE, and TALEAH are finishing up bedtime routines. JEN sits on her bed and summons the campers.

JEN

Okey doke.

(JEN holds out her hands, a signal every camper immediately recognizes. The girls sit on their respective beds, scooch close to each other, and hold hands.)

IMANI

Can I pray?

OLIVE

I didn’t get to pray yet. Imani prayed on Sunday.

TALEAH

It’s not a big deal.

JEN

Abracadabra hasn’t gotten to pray yet either.

(to ABBY)

How about it?

IMANI

Yeah Abby.

(ABBY pushes the sleeves of her oversized sweatshirt up, freeing her hands for prayer. She fidgets, working up the nerve.)

ABBY

Sure.

(JEN and the campers cheer ABBY on, then bow their heads.)

ABBY

(after a deep breath)

Dear God thank you for camp thank you for this cabin thank you for making Jen our counselor she’s cool please bless this meeting help us um love each other and be sisters like in Christ thank you love you in Jesus’s name amen.

COMPANY

Amen.

JEN

Awesome, Abby, thank you. So.

(JEN isn’t sure how to begin.)

JEN

Um.

OLIVE

Jen?

JEN

Yes?

OLIVE

Can I say something?

JEN

Yes.

OLIVE

So I feel like there is a lack of cabin unity—

TALEAH

—wow, we should have a meeting about that. Oh wait.

JEN

Taleah. Come on.

TALEAH

And that’s not even what we’re really meeting about, right Jen? This is a sneaky way to scold me for what went down during rec.

IMANI

Ooo, the Recreation Period Incident.

JEN

Guys, Olive is speaking.

OLIVE

So I’m not gonna, like, name names, but some people in the cabin are excluding other people in the cabin and it’s not, like, bringing us closer to God.

TALEAH

Sorry leaving you out of my ungodly drama didn’t bring you closer to God.

JEN

Taleah.

TALEAH

Sorry, I just think this is dumb ‘cause everyone knows what happened, so there’s nothing to talk about, and it doesn’t even have to do with cabin unity.

OLIVE

I’m telling you I’m mad ‘cause I don’t know what happened.

JEN

I don’t know what happened, except for what Miss Maya told me, which totally had to do with cabin unity.

IMANI

I don’t even know the whole tea, which is saying something. But I know a lot of it, so I wanna spill it.

TALEAH

It’s my tea, I’ll spill it.

IMANI

Compromise: we’ll both spill it.