In this chapter I want to analyse the development of drama and assess its role within Christian education and worship. This will involve a brief discussion on the historical developments in the role of drama within the liturgical and pedagogical life of the church in the West. This will be followed by a more detailed examination of the nature of Christian drama as manifested in a plethora of published texts in hard copy and in electronic formats. What type of Christian drama is being published and used at the present time, and what kind of theology is espoused in these various texts?

By analysing the texts of these various pieces, I want to suggest that, for the most part, the plethora of material that has been produced has rarely accorded with the central tenets of Black theology. Indeed, it is more than true to report that Black people, both visually in marketing terms (front-cover photographs, for example) in addition to substantive content are painfully invisible when considering the merits or otherwise of Christian drama. Within the field of Christian drama, there is no more appreciation for the contextual needs of Black people than is the case in most main-stream generic schemes or scholarly work in Christian education and nurture. I have challenged this naïve and somewhat simplistic “colour blind” doctrine in a previous publication.