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Inspector Snow and the Sleeping Santa by Skip Chalker
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Without any doubling, the script has 8 speaking roles, 8 non-speaking roles, and 2 optional clucking roles. |
| Run Time | Around 27 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act Christmas story for children with various simple settings. US English. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and Sergeant Merryman are called to the McGrew house one Christmas Eve, where Santa has been found fast asleep. As well as getting him on his way, they must find out who drugged him, and why they want to delay Christmas. The investigation takes them to interviews with the Easter Bunny, April Fool, and the Tooth Fairy, and ultimately back to the McGrew house. |
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| Inspector Snow and The Twelve Murders of Christmas by Skip Chalker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Alternate lyrics to 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' are included, to be performed at the end of the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act festive comedy on a variety of simple sets. Suitable for a family audience. |
| Synopsis | Inspector Snow and his sidekick, Sergeant Merryman, have to catch the fiend who has embarked on a killing spree in the run up to Christmas. But what, if anything, connects all these murders? |
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| Joseph's Dream by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. The angel is written male, but could be either. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch intended for church groups. |
| Synopsis | Joseph receives a visit from an angel. (Matthew , 18-25) |
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| Light of the World by Hilary Mackelden |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short sketch intended for church groups. |
| Synopsis | What happened in the Inn the day after Jesus was born. |
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| A Little Elfin Magic by Donna Brightwell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are written as male or female, this is largely a matter of personal pronouns, so the script can easily be adjusted to accommodate anything from ten boys through to ten girls. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act (well, technically two acts, but of one-act play length!) secular Christmas play. Aimed at junior school children, but could enjoyably be played for laughs by older groups! |
| Synopsis | It's September and the Elves in Santa's toy workshop are in a spot of bother - they've only just woken up after their New Year Party and they have three months to make a year's worth of toys. Worse still, could the new department member be a spy? |
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| The Little Watch Girl by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children which could be played that way or could all be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play based on Hans Christian Andersen's Little Match Girl. Single set. Props include a rather under-cooked roast goose. |
| Synopsis | A familiar Christmas story is given a major twist when a starving, freezing girl out on a snow Christmas Eve supplements her match selling income by stealing watches from passers by. She is visited by several visions to help her learn the true meaning of Christmas. |
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| Lord of the Mince Pies by Ashley Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus. The pupils of St Hippocampus' School are written male, but really could be any combination. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Three Christmas Carols are suggested during the course of the show. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy melodrama for kids - with a gruesome flavour! Alternates between full-stage sets and front-of-curtain scenes. Simple props. |
| Synopsis | An outbreak of Tebbit's Disease (which turns teachers insane and mean) coincides with a heavy fall of snow, cutting off St Hippocampus' school (from the village of Chipping King Edwards). The teachers' nerves are at breaking point, supplies are low and now the roads are cut off by snow! What will the teachers do for food?
(If you need a clue, it is likely that the teachers are familiar with Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'...) |
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| The Match Girl Controversy by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | An allegorical sketch about Advent! (Minimal staging requirements) |
| Synopsis | Discussions about the new 'Seasonal School presentation' get heated. An Advent-themed play. |
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| The Mayor's Christmas Masquerade by Olivia Arieti |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play based on Mary E. Wilkins's The Christmas Masquerade |
| Synopsis | The Mayor is throwing a masquerade party for the children of the town at Christmas, and a new Costumer has provided costumes for all the children. However, when the party is over, the costumes won’t come off. The Costumer has demands to make of the Mayor, or the kids stay Princesses forever. |
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| Merry Christmas Everyone by Mark Seaman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple, thoughtful short play for Christmas. Single set (just enough to indicate a family home). Originally published 2013, revised 2019. |
| Synopsis | The family are just trying to have a day together to enjoy the important things of Christmas - the food, the presents and not having to watch the Eastenders special with Grandma - when a homeless man at the door really spoils the mood. But he must be mad... He says he's Jesus. |
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