We didn't use scripts for our drama, but I see the wisdom in doing so.

Some of our kids do well with coming up with their own responses and questions, but others need a lot of help.

One key is not having your entire skit dependent on ONE actor (child) to say the important things, and to have a teacher/helper as part of the scene to prompt things along.

Also helps to do the skit TWICE with two different groups because the second group always tries to do better than the first once they see it.

In our drama about Jesus Healing the Ten Lepers, we discussed possible excuses for the nine who didn't return to thank Jesus, but then let each of the nine kids say what they wanted when interviewed.  To encourage them to really try, we had a "panel of judges" with scorecards 1-10 rating each leper's excuses. It was great fun.

For the ONE leper who did return, we chose that student carefully and gave them some ideas beforehand. The INTERVIEWER was a teacher who was good at prompting them.

(I saw Doug Adams a professor at the Pacific School of Religion do this live, and it was quite effective. I think you could do something like this with a number of stories without extensive scripting --- playing the scene and then having a teacher interview the characters, and a "panel of judges" offer comments about each character's point of view/responses.  This "panel" is where the interesting reflection takes place, and the interviewer/leader could ask others to respond.)