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| Ackroyd’s Christmas Stocking by Alison Clink |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 14 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with a single (kitchen/diner) setting. Some strong language. Contains sprouts. |
| Synopsis | Helen and Chris are rather dubious about daughter Charlotte's new boyfriend, shaven headed Ackroyd, currently on police bail. Helen does her best to include him in the family's Christmas celebrations with surprising consequences for them all. |
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| And A Happy New Year! by Gwen Stevens |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 113 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length comedy with a split set - lounge, bedroom and hallway. |
| Synopsis | Susan and Nigel bring the children to her parents' home for Christmas. Little do they know how disastrous their stay will be. Mother is ill in bed and her Father is suffering with Alzheimer's. Then the heating won't work, the telephone is dead, and they are snowed in - leaving them stranded... |
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| Aunt Matilda Comes For Christmas Dinner by Richard Hills |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Three on-stage actors plus an off-stage voice (which could be recorded). |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act comedy play, single domestic setting. |
| Synopsis | Every Christmas for the last ten years, Gordon and Margaret have had to put up with Aunt Matilda coming round for Dinner, banning the television, pinching the best seat by the fire... Could it be she'll miss this year? |
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Christmas on The Law by Martyn Chapman
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Poignant, humorous family drama structurally in two acts, but of one-act length. Multiple locations, but only two require furniture, one needs a backdrop and several might be played front-of-curtain. |
| Synopsis | A family gathers at their Scottish home to celebrate Christmas, including their annual hike up 'The Law', a local volcanic hill. They will meet Rhona's boyfriend, hear Oliver's news, and finally talk about the missing James. |
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| Cracker's Christmas by Jilly McNeil |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act farce with a single (dining room) setting. |
| Synopsis | A typical family Christmas dinner as tensions rise on the arrival of Aunt Delphine who must be kept apart from her sister Aunt Daphne as the two have been estranged since Daphne ‘stole’ Delphine’s boyfriend forty years ago. The family descend into ever decreasing circles until the truth is revealed. |
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| Happy Christmas Shirley by Louise Roche |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Characters are adults, with a broad range of ages. The Auxiliary (who appears in two scenes) might double with Peggy. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play (and tear-jerker) about a family Christmas. Single set (divided, largely by lighting, into several playing areas, for which there are stage diagrams in the Producer's copy of the script). |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas Eve and the outside of Shirley's house looks like the Blackpool Illuminations. Inside, everything is ready and Shirley is determined to have the perfect Christmas day. But will she be able to keep a lid on family feuds? Will grumpy Nan go too far this year? Will heavily pregnant daughter Donna give birth? And how on earth will Shirley react when her other daughter tells her she has invited a lonely old man to share their Christmas dinner? |
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| I Don’t Think I’ll Be Here Next Christmas by Dawn Cairns |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. One character (Laura) appears as an off-stage voice only. |
| Run Time | Around 41 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act comedy with a single setting. |
| Synopsis | Cantankerous pensioner Jean always spends Christmas with her son John and his wife Sheila. The mutual dislike between Sheila and Jean constantly bubbles under the surface and is reflected in the presents they give each other. Everything threatens to boil over after an incident involving sixpences in the Christmas pudding (and a toenail in the Bombay mix). Fortunately for Sheila, their daughter Laura comes to the rescue. The play features the same characters as You Won't Know I'm Here - though works perfectly well as a standalone piece. |
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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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| Santa's Lost It by Peter Keel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Whilst the script specifies that the children are aged 10 and 8, we would advise that they should be played (for laughs, as kids) by considerably older actors. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch. |
| Synopsis | A family awaits the arrival of Santa Claus, but he's not what they were expecting. There's some tense negotiation before Santa realises his bad eyesight may have created a worse problem elsewhere. |
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| The Shadow of Christmas by Martyn Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 0. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Prose monologue - a good character piece - with minimal set and an ill-fitting costume! |
| Synopsis | A reluctant Father Christmas talks about his feelings during the festive season, remembering the daughter he lost and considering what life might have been like. |
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