It can also be effective when adults play children's roles. This makes these adults very accessible to the children and it also helps the children identify with the characters being portrayed. Complex characters make complex stories. However, this need not be dry or one-dimensional. This would need to be explained by a narrator.
Narrators can also be effective when they have some sort of dialogue with the audience.
This is invitational to the congregation and moves the service from presentational to participational. This is the character's expressed ideal of what they most want to happen in their life. It is helpful to periodically restate the goal. This is the element or the fear that keeps the goal from being achieved. As with the goal, it is effective when the conflict is clearly stated and consistently present.