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CHRISTMAS PLAYS

Plays Magazine offers a wide variety of short plays perfect for the holidays: Christmas Plays, Children’s Plays, and School Plays for kids of all ages. Plays include original scripts as well as adaptations of such stories as Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol with Mr. Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Bob Cratchit; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Goose; Louisa May Alcott’s Jo’s Sacrifice from Little Women; O’Henry’s Gift of the Magi; and E.T.A. Hoffman’s The Christmas Nutcracker. Other plays of the season touch on Santa Claus, Elves, Shoemaker, Mother Goose, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. All available with our online subscription package ($75).

HEART OF A STRANGER by Christina Hamlett HEART OF A STRANGER by Christina Hamlett

Upper Grades; 4 female, 5 male or female; contemporary; December holidays; 25 minutes.
A chance meeting in a Boston coffee shop gives a young woman mourning the loss of her beloved sister a new outlook on the world. A heartwarming, sensitive holiday drama about friendship and “the gift of life” (organ donation).

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BEYOND SANTA CLAUS by Virginia Miller McDonough BEYOND SANTA CLAUS by Virginia Miller McDonough

Upper and Middle Grades; 3 female; 10 minutes; contemporary.
What if you don't celebrate Christmas? This thoughtful play provides a great springboard for classroom discussion about tolerance, accepting and celebrating differences, and respecting all religions, cultures, and points of view.

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SHOP TILL YOU DROP! by Donna Hall SHOP TILL YOU DROP! by Donna Hall

Upper Grades; 10 female; 3 male; 1 male or female, and extras; 3 scenes, 15 minutes each.
High school students take center stage in this three-pack of plays about thinking of others at holiday time; creative gift-giving from the heart; and innovative sales techniques when jobs are one the line. Perform one, two, or three scenes, as time permits.

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STEALING CHRISTMAS by Craig Sodaro STEALING CHRISTMAS by Craig Sodaro

Upper and Middle Grades; 3 male; 3 female; 25 minutes. Petty thieves in the year 1920 rediscover the spirit of the holiday when they encounter a war widow and her young daughter.

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