The Message Proclaimed

A script of 10 passages for performance by young adults

A New Performance Piece on the Bible

  • Brings the Scriptures alive in new and dramatic ways
  • Cast of four young adults and one musician
  • Lasts about 45 minutes (length can be adapted)
  • Can be followed by reflection and discussion
  • No cost for performance rights if no admission charged
  • Direction and/or talent available at reasonable price
  • Can make money for your organization or cause
  • Needs minimal staging, props, costumes
  • Way to reach young adults (and others)

Suggested Uses

Perfect event for young adult groups, national and regional conventions and conferences, retreats, parish missions, college and high school theater and campus ministry groups, parishes, dioceses, Catholic and ecumenical groups, bible study and RCIA programs, and for individual inspiration and understanding of the Bible.

How it Works

  • The script is available in electronic form at no charge upon request. 
  • There is no charge for performance rights if no admission is charged.
  • Copies of The Message: Catholic / Ecumenical Edition are available at 50% discount to organizations putting on a performance and may be sold at performances at full or discounted price with profits going to the organization or one of its causes. 
  • A troupe of four professional actors and a musician are available (at a very reasonable cost) to put on the performance; or a professional director is available (at a very reasonable cost) to work with a local group of performers either by telephone or in person.


For further information, contact Greg Pierce, President and Publisher of ACTA Publications in Chicago, at gpierce@actapublications.com or call 800-397-2282.
Discover what the Bible would sound like if it had been written in contemporary American English:
  • "I'm not interested in crowd approval. And do you know why? Because I know you and your crowds. I know that love, especially God's love, is not on your working agenda." (John 5:41)
  • "First this: God created the Heavens and Earth all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, and inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss." (Genesis 1:1-2)
  • "Happy the man who's got a good wife; he'll live twice as long; she'll double his life:' (Sirach 26:1)
  • "If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love: (2 Corinthians 13:3)