The Merrie Christmas Show by Lindsay Price - Theatrefolk

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The Merrie Christmas Show

Recommended for High Schools and Middle Schools

The Merrie Christmas Show

by Lindsay Price

A group of lively travelling players take you on a spirited adventure through Christmas past and present. Flexible casting, and audience participation.

 About 30 minutes

Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks

 6
3 M | 3 W, Easily Expandable

Simple Set

 23 pages

Comedy Student Directors Vignettes Young Audiences

"Yule! Yule! Yule! Three puddings in a pool!"

A group of lively traveling players are at your service as they take you on a spirited adventure through Christmas past and present. They have searched the globe for Christmas stories and songs that will amaze, thrill, and delight children of all ages.

A great play for beginners, The Merrie Christmas Show can be performed with almost any sized cast. Lots of room for audience participation.

This is a vignette play! What is a Vignette Play?

6 Characters
3 M, 3 W, Easily Expandable

Characters in this play are currently identified as male or female. Directors are welcome to assign any gender (binary or non-binary) to any character and modify pronouns accordingly.

A troupe of travelling players led by:
Dame Dorothy [W] 32 lines
Robyn Steadfellow [M] 32 lines
King Karl and the Lamprey Pie:
Mary-Ann [W] 32 lines
William [M] 32 lines
King Karl [M] 14 lines
Mother [W] 4 lines
Father [M] 7 lines
Santa [M] 3 lines
Rupert:
Rupert [M]
Singer and Chorus
A Very Special Night:
Katherine [W] 13 lines
Henry [M] 14 lines
Reggie [M] 7 lines
Simon [M] 2 lines
Cat [A] 3 lines
Duck [A] 4 lines
Players to be Wasps, Barn door, Apple trees
Good King Wenceslas:
Wenceslas [M] 4 lines
Page [A] 2 lines

Subgenres
Farce Fantasy Christmas/Holiday Fables/Folktales Mystery/Thriller Theatre for young audiences Fairy tales

Settings
16th Century / Elizabethan

Dress
Period costumes

Audience
All audiences Children Pre-teen Teen

Features
Variable Cast Size Poetry Dance Audience participation Choral work Physical comedy Music Student directors

Set
Simple set Interior set

Themes
Personal responsibility Theatre

Other uses
Class work

Prop List

Lamprey pie, Pillow, Blanket

Multimedia

Let Us All Be Merry (p. 5)
Rupert (p. 6)
Wenceslas (p. 15)

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Customer Comments

We love Theatrefolk and Lindsay Price. Last year we did Deck the Stage... it was fabulous! Deck the Stage is perfect for a high school production. Ms. Price's dialogue is witty and charming, with just the right measure of silliness that can really be hammed up.

I know this year's production of The Merrie Christmas Show will be just as successful as Deck the Stage.

Tracy Nash
Drama Coach
Esparto High School
Esparto California

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A vignette play is a collection of short scenes on a theme. You'll love working with the variety and flexibility of the scenes. Your actors will love the fast pace and fun characters.

There's more. Every Theatrefolk vignette play holds the unexpected. A showcase monologue. A dramatic moment. A change in form. A left turn.

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