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An Easter monologue for a teen girlTalitha Cumi1 actor · 6 min

Easter · 1 actor · 6 minutes · One teen girl, 13–15

Talitha Cumi

Late on the night between the cross and the empty tomb, Jairus’s daughter can’t sleep: she’s nearly fourteen, her parents won’t stop watching her, and her father has woken her with “Talitha cumi” every morning for a year. A funny, then touching Easter monologue for one teen girl.

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Running time6 minutes
Cast1 role · One teen girl, 13–15
PrepMemorized, with two or three rehearsals; the part is about 610 words. She can keep the pages in her lap while she sits, but the last 130 words, said on her feet, she has to know by heart.
Best forEaster program, a Saturday-evening Easter service or Easter Vigil, Easter Sunday, a youth service or youth group in the weeks after Easter, a small church with one strong teen
ScriptureMark 5:21–43; Luke 24:1–11 (KJV)
ThemeJesus took a dead girl by the hand and told her to get up. A year later He was crucified, and on the third day He rose from the dead Himself.
FormatPrintable PDF

About the skit

Back home she’s “Jairus’s daughter,” the one who got up. Her mother checks on “the lamp” three times a night, and there’s no lamp in her room. Ever since Jesus told them to give her something to eat, her mother hasn’t stopped feeding her. She doesn’t remember dying, only a hand holding hers, so she tells Mark 5 the way her parents tell it, which is often.

Then the fun goes out of her voice. On Friday He was crucified, and this morning, for the first time in a year, her father didn’t come in and say it. Toward dawn a friend calls up to her window, with news from Luke 24 that she hears before we do.

One girl of 13–15, a blanket and a bench, with two or three rehearsals. The staging notes cover the one-sided talk at the window, a pastoral word for families who have lost a child, and a five-minute version.

Read the first page

(The GIRL tiptoes in from the doorway side with the blanket around her shoulders, glances back toward the doorway, and sits on the bench. She speaks to the congregation in a stage whisper: hushed in tone, but loud enough for the back row.)

GIRL: Shh. They're asleep. Both of them. Do you know how rare that is? My mother gets up three times a night to check on me. She says she's checking the lamp. (beat) There's no lamp in here.

(She settles in.)

GIRL: I do have a name, but nobody uses it. Back home I'm "Jairus's daughter." Or "that girl." You know. (She makes a small gesture with one hand: up.) The one who got up.

GIRL: My father's a ruler of the synagogue. A very serious man. And every morning since then, he comes into my room, pulls open the curtain, and says, "Talitha cumi." It's what Jesus said to me. "Damsel, I say unto thee, arise." My father thinks it's beautiful. (flat) Every morning. Even on the sabbath.

GIRL: That was more than a year ago. I was twelve. I'm thirteen now, nearly fourteen. My mother still tells people I'm twelve.

The script continues in the full PDF.

Characters

  • The Girl, Jairus’s daughter, about fourteen: funny, a little dramatic and tired of being “that girl”

Props

  • A blanket or a shawl
  • A bench or a stool of ordinary chair height
  • Optional: a chair at the front corner to be the window

What you get

  • The full script with stage directions
  • Cast list, props list and simple staging notes
  • Four discussion questions for a small group, youth group or Sunday school class
  • Performance rights for your church: perform it as often as you like and print copies for your cast

Performance rights

One purchase covers one church or ministry. Perform it as many times as you like, make copies for everyone in the cast and crew, adapt the lines and include it in your livestream. Please don’t resell the script or share the file publicly. Read the full license.

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Questions

Can I change the names or lines?

Yes. Change names and genders, trim lines for time or adapt a joke for your church. The script is yours to fit to your people.

Can we record and stream the performance?

Yes. You can include it in your livestream and post the recording on your church’s own channels.

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