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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
This full length play is excellent for Marriage Conferences or Marriage Retreats, as well as for Family Conferences. Broken Promises is a play about covenant, family and restoration.
Maurice and Jackie are high school sweethearts and are now approaching eighteen years of marriage but something has changed. Jackie and Maurice have become distant. Jackie sees it but she's afraid to face it and discuss it. As time progresses Jackie realizes that some things you just cannot ignore.
Maurice must confess his faults, repent and ask his wife to forgive him. The Jenkins family needs restoring. Thanks to close, loving friends who are bold enough to step in and help Maurice and Jackie to deal with some painful issues so that restoration can come.
This play will make you laugh and touch you deeply as you witness the wedding, separation and restoration process of this couple.
Product # BP-20064404 Cost: 22.00 the play is sent via electronic download
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Characters:
Maurice Jenkins (leading man; age between 40-45. Janice’s husband of 15 years)
Jackie Jenkins (leading lady; age between 40-45. Maurice’s wife)
Note: [It would be great if Jackie and Maurice can sing]
Tia Jenkins (age 8. Janice and Maurice’s daughter)
Deon Jenkins (age 16. Janice and Maurice’s son)
Darlene Churchfield (age between 30 and 35. An attractive woman with a good sense of humor. Jackie’s neighbor and bestfriend)
Keith Churchfield (between 30-35. Darlene’s husband of 5 years. Very outgoing).
Mom Mason (age between 55-60. A wise and loving family friend of the Jenkins).
Pop Joe Mason (age between 60 and 61. Esther’s loving husband of 30 years.)
Mary (church member and Janice’s long-time friend)
Groomsman #2
Flower Girl
Ring Bearer
Nelson Jenkins (Maurice’s brother (age 38-41)
Trish Jenkins (Nelson’s wife)
Pastor (performs wedding ceremony in opening scene)
Singers (for wedding and soloists for in between scenes)
Wedding Guests
EXCERPTS FROM PLAY - COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
©2006, Pamela R. Smith, All rights reserved.
SCENE I
Setting: 17 years earlier. Church is decorated for a wedding. Musician is playing softly and the soloists are in position. The guests are already seated and the ushers are at their post. The guests are dressed for a wedding. The pastor and groom (Maurice) are already at the altar.
The musician plays: “Forever I Do” as the wedding party makes its entrance.
Groomsman #1 (Keith) escorts Bridesmaid #1 (Mary)
Groomsman #2 escorts Bridesmaid #2 (Trish)
Nelson (best man) escorts (Maid of honor, Darlene)
Ring Bearer
Flower Girl
After the Flower Girl reaches the altar the musician plays one stanza of “Here Comes the Bride/Wedding March” and the Pastor signals for everyone to stand. The musician then plays and sings with singers “I Prayed for You”) [by Allen & Allen from their “New Beginning CD]
Jackie: (bride – dressed in wedding dress – escorted by Pop Mason)
Pastor: Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the covenant agreement between Maurice DeWayne Jenkins and Jacquelyn Marie Davis. A covenant is more than a legal contract. It is binding in the heart and spirit. This covenant is between God, Maurice and Jacquelyn. This day they have chosen to make a public profession of their covenant love for one another. Who gives this bride away?
Pop Mason: I do. (gently hugs Jackie and steps backward and sits on the front row next to Mom Mason).
Pastor: Ruth 1:16-17 says "Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me." This day Maurice and Jackie have purposed in their hearts to enter into the same covenant. To love, honor and cherish one other, allowing nothing and no one to separate them. Maurice do you take Jacquelyn to be your wife?
Maurice: I do.
Pastor: Do you promise to love, honor, cherish, and protect her, forsaking all others and cleaving only unto her.
EXCERPTS FROM PLAY - COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
©2006, Pamela R. Smith, All rights reserved.
SCENE II - (EXCERPTS ONLY)
Jackie – Someone is at the door. It’s probably Darlene. We were going grocery shopping together.
Mary – All right but call me on my cell phone if you are able to make the seminar.
Jackie: Okay. Bye.
Mary: Bye.
Jackie – (places phone in its cradle; goes to the front of house and opens door for Darlene – cheerful) Good morning Darlene, come on in.
Darlene – (enters) Girl, I’m so glad to have a day off! We have been working so many long hours (sits on sofa) I’m beat.
Jackie – Well, just sit back and relax awhile. I remember those long hours I had to work when Maurice and I were first getting our business started. It wears you out.
Darlene – I know that’s right and Keith acts like he can’t understand! I come home from working ten hours and if I haven’t put anything in the slow cooker, I have to spend another hour in the kitchen. And I’m not even going to talk about having to clean, do laundry, help the kids with their homework, go to after-school activities…. Now every now and then Keith will bring home something for dinner. (chuckles) Girl, they didn’t tell me it was going to be like this.
Jackie – What?
Darlene – Marriage!
Jackie – You and Keith have a wonderful relationship.
Darlene – (rhetorical question) By whose standards? A crazy person’s!
Jackie – You need to stop. I see how he treats you.
Darlene – Please. Don’t believe the hype. That’s public behavior. Follow me home.
Jackie – I have been in your home.
Darlene – No, I mean come and be a fly on the wall.
Jackie – Girl, stop.
Darlene – Stop nothing. (pause) Yea, he’s a mighty man of God, as you all say but he needs some teaching on how to be a mighty husband.
EXCERPTS FROM PLAY - COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
©2006, Pamela R. Smith, All rights reserved.
SCENE III - (EXCERPTS ONLY)
Setting: Jenkins’ Living Room. Maurice is just coming in from work, no one else is home.
Maurice: (enters and places his briefcase on the coffee table. He looks at his watch then calls out for the children) Tia (pause – listening for a response). Deon. Hello, is anyone here? (brief pause. He looks at his watch again and then picks up the telephone and dials a number). Hey. How are you doing? (pause) I’ll be there at 8:00 so you need to be ready. I don’t have a lot of time tonight. (pause) Okay, I’ll see you when I get there. (hangs the phone up).
(the door opens. Tia enters first and Jackie and Deon follow)
Tia: Hey Daddy, I thought you had to work late tonight (hugs her father).
Maurice: I do. I just came by to pick up something.
Tia: You missed it Daddy. Deon scored a touchdown today!
Maurice: Is that right, son?
Deon: Yes. Are you getting ready to leave?
Maurice: Yes, I have to go back to the office for a few but I want be long.
Deon: (sarcastically) Really.
Maurice: (frowning) What?
Deon: Nothing. I still needed your help with my school project.
Jackie: (standing to the side going through the mail. Very quiet and distant).
Maurice: I want be long but I’m sure your Mom will be glad to help you until I return. (looking at Jackie) What are you doing way over there? You haven’t even given me my kiss yet.
Jackie: (stops thumbing through the mail and walks to where Maurice is and kisses him on the cheek and then pulls a magazine from the stack of mail she was going through and starts flipping the pages)
Maurice: What’s for dinner?
Jackie: We already ate. You said you were working late.
Maurice: (acting agitated) Well, I still have to eat.
Jackie: Lately, when you have been working late you have not been eating at home, so I thought I’d treat the children and celebrate Deon’s touchdown at the same time.
Tia: (still excited) Daddy you missed it. Deon caught the other team’s ball and ran it all the way in for a touchdown.
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Trish: You know in about six months you and Maurice will have been for eighteen years and you all have been such an inspiration to me and Nelson. Lord, Nelson thinks his big brother Maurice does everything right.
Jackie: And you?
Trish: Excuse me?
Jackie: You still work three days in the midtown office, so do you think Maurice does everything right?
Trish: Are you talking about the office or what because I’m hearing some under currents here?
Jackie: (serious demeanor) You know what I’m asking you.
Trish: Jackie, I don’t know. We all are human and I don’t have anyone so elevated that they can’t error. That includes me, you, Nelson, and anyone else.
Jackie: I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to put you on the spot. I just feel ….
Trish: Feel what?
Jackie: Nothing.
Trish: You can talk to me. It won’t go any further. Not even to Nelson.
Jackie: It’s hard to talk to someone about something that you are not even willing to admit to yourself.
Trish: What do you mean?
EXCERPTS FROM PLAY - COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
©2006, Pamela R. Smith, All rights reserved.
SCENE V - (EXCERPTS ONLY)
Darlene: I’m telling you. What a turnaround. I can’t get enough of my baby now. I thought we were on the verge of calling the quits but all we needed was some counseling to help us work through some things.
Keith: Yeah, it has really helped me.
Jackie: Okay, enough. What is it that you all have come here to do?
Maurice: I came to apologize.
Jackie: You have done that already.
Maurice: But you have not accepted it.
Jackie: I accept your apology. I just don’t accept you in my life anymore.
Darlene: (covering her mouth)
Mom Mason: Why is it that you have decided not to accept Maurice back in your life?
Jackie: I didn’t decide that; he did when he broke covenant.
Mom Mason: That’s a nice little package you have put it in; so let’s unwrap it to see what’s really inside.
Jackie: Excuse me?
Mom Mason: You have refused to talk to, meet with, or do anything with Maurice since the day you two openly discussed the affair.
Jackie: I just need time.
Mom Mason: That is true but the danger in shutting yourself down and shutting everyone out is your pain can easily turn to bitterness and that is not a place you want to live in. It poisons your entire home.
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Maurice: He’s really been concerned about you. But I told him you are strong and you will be fine.
Jackie: That’s right, I will be fine.
Trish: Jackie, please let the wall down just a little. Just a little.
Nelson: Maurice is not the same man. All he wants is his family.
Jackie: Why? Why does he suddenly want his family?
Maurice: Because God has ordained us to be together. It was not put together by man but by God. You were right in saying that I did not value that enough. I didn’t value the fact that my destiny is tied into your destiny. We are one. We can get some good things accomplished as individuals but as one, there is no telling what we can do. I want my family because it is my destiny. I love you, Deon and Tia.
Jackie: (folding her arms and just staring at Maurice)
Maurice: Look I can’t make you believe me. I can’t make you trust me. You have to pray and ask God to lead you.
Darlene: Jackie, please. All he wants is just a small opening in your heart.
Jackie: (looking intently at Maurice) What do you want from me?
Maurice: (smiling) Not much. Just to be able to call and talk to you. To take you out at least once a week. To be able to…
Jackie: (interrupting, holding up one of her hands) Hold on, let’s not get carried away. Maybe we can start off talking on the phone.
Maurice: (excited) Okay that’s good.
Jackie: What day is good for you?
Maurice: Any day. I’m taking a six month leave of absence from work.
Jackie: What?
Maurice: Yeah. Nelson has agreed to oversee everything.
Nelson: Jackie. He will do anything and whatever it takes.
Mom Mason: You know what would really be nice is if you two could finally take that two-week vacation in Paris staying at the Four Seasons Hotel George V that Jackie has been talking about for years.
Trish: (excited) Yes, and stay in the Honeymoon suite that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, as you have also mentioned for years.
Jackie: (trying to hide her excitement) We can’t stay for two weeks, it would cost way too much.
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