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I have written a number of plays for play festivals, as well as read through hundreds of plays on the internet, and I realized there is gap in the publishing industry where good authors struggle to get their plays published. So I have created an online play publishing company that will publish and sell plays!
Comedies, Plays in 2 acts, Sci-Fi

Explain the Handcuffs – a time travel adventure – sci-fi comedy scripts (From Tales of the Cul De Sac)

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EXPLAIN THE HANDCUFFS – A TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE – SCI-FI COMEDY SCRIPTS

Frank and Maude’s love life has dwindled to a trickle over the past year, ever since Frank took to the basement in his quest to invent the first ever working time machine. In fact, Maude only sees him occasionally when he pops up for arbitrary items such as sunflower oil and the washing machine. In desperation, Maude has taken to redecorating their entire house and making herself even more gorgeous in order to catch his eye.
But what Maude doesn’t know is that Frank is actually on the verge of a major breakthrough that will catapult them three hundred years into the future….

Explain the handcuffs – a time travel adventure was staged by the Gaslight theatre players.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

Top of the Torrens Theatre group, SA, Australia – 2018
Hamilton Civic Theatre, TX, USA – 2018

Authors:  Jeff Carlson and Zach Triplett

Type: Two-act comedy

Genre: Sci-fi comedy scripts

Length:  Two hours, 2 hr script

Number of Actors: Six,  3M  4F (two female parts are played by the same actress)

Suitable for: All ages

Ages of actors:  Four middle aged,  three in their late teens to late twenties

Set: A living room with doors to the basement, kitchen and the outside.

Level of Difficulty:  7/10 – maintaining the humor and making the futuristic characters believable.

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Like this script? Have a look at some other two-act comedies:

Foulweather friend – a two-act dark comedy about bringing your audience back from the dead
Heir to a misfortune – a short two act farce
Clown Car – an hilarious whodunit script. With clowns

Dramas, One act plays

When the Devil Come Knockin’ – ten minute drama scripts

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WHEN THE DEVIL COME KNOCKIN’ – TEN MINUTE DRAMA SCRIPTS

When the Devil come Knockin’ – is a ten minute drama script about the broken relationship between an alcoholic father and his son. It revolves around years of abuse and alcoholism. Charles and Darius must learn to forgive and to love each other in order for them to move on with their lives.

This play was first produced by Lee University’s English/ Literature Department Fringe Fest 2013 under the direction of Stacey Isom.

Author:  LaDarrion Williams

Genre: Drama

Type: One-act play, ten minute drama scripts

Number of Actors: Two male actors, 2M, two men

Ages of actors:  One late teens-20’s, other 40’s up.

Suitable for:  All ages

Level of Difficulty:  7/10 – showing the level of hate and love in one person that exists in these relationships

Set: Easy, simple a bare apartment with a table and a bottle of liquor on it.

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Copyright October 2013  LaDarrion Williams and Off The Wall Plays

Like this play? Have a look at our other short one act plays!

An empty chair – the fight inside the mind of a comatose man
Family Exercise – short one act drama about the day when they learn daddy has had an affair
Someone to remember – a disturbed teenage girl has to deal with loss in her life

Comedies, Dramas, One act plays

Stag – two-hander drama (poignant comedy) script for two actors

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STAG – A TWO-HANDER DRAMA (POIGNANT COMEDY) SCRIPT FOR 2 ACTORS

Two Englishmen are out of place, out of time and dangerously low on vodka…

In this two-hander drama script,  two old friends, John and Davvo, stage a reunion after a lapse of 10 years in a hotel room in an East European city. John is on the brink of marriage while Davvo, his best man, has embraced a life of carefree debauchery.  They find the battered charm of the city they remembered has evaporated, replaced by rampant consumer capitalism and belligerent British stag-nighters. At the same time, they’re painfully aware of the death of their own youthful idealism and John’s ambivalence about his impending marriage.

Over the course of an evening, they probe each others’ insecurities, finally agreeing to spend a “lost weekend” together, during which their friendship is tested to crisis point.

The producer and playwright Giles Morris was inspired to write Stag when returning to a small ex-Soviet capital after 10 years and seeing that while the city had been transformed by globalization, the ex-pat community were largely unaltered.

‘Stag’ was produced at the Courtyard Theatre, London, in October 2011.

“A concoction of sharp humour and tension that challenges our ideas of romance and commitment, security and freedom. Both actors give excellent performances in a bold play that will leave you talking and thinking for many nights afterwards.” www.remotegoat.com

Author: Joseph Hawkins

Genre: Two-hander drama script

Type: One act play

Length: Seventy minutes

Number of actors: Two, 2M. Voices offstage.

Ages of actors: Two men in their late thirties to early forties.

Suitable for: PG 14 (Language)

Level of Difficulty:  7/10 – building a climax and tension between the two actors and it’s quite wordy.

Set:  A hotel room in a minor capital city in Eastern Europe. There are twin beds with a coffee table between them, and large, curtained windows to the rear. A television set, a cracked mirror, tumblers and an ashtray. Overall, the décor is extremely dilapidated, in Soviet style, with heavy floral patterns in brown, beige and red and cheap dark wood. Dim electric light.

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Like this play? Have a look at some of our other dramas for small casts

Two brothers – a two hander play about two bothers dealing with a parent with Alzheimer’s
The Mysterious death of Christine Wilde – a whodunit about a young actress who was murdered

Dramas, Plays in 2 acts

The Faun – a drama play about Michelangelo

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THE FAUN – A DRAMA PLAY ABOUT MICHELANGELO

In this drama play about Michelangelo, the young Michelangelo, who is a bit of an unwashed misfit, is given one month to make progress at his art school, or his father will remove him from the school and make him an apprentice at the wool guild. Michelangelo is desperate to remain at the school and so he begins to carve discarded pieces of marble in secret. When the ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de Medici takes an interest in him, he shows him his newest acquisition, a carved statue of a faun. Michelangelo discovers that he can hear the faun, who inspires him to create a great statue out of the marble, which changes his life forever.

Read more about playwright Gilbert Sarabia.

Author: Gilbert Sarabia

Genre: Alternative historical drama

Type: Full length two-act drama play

Length: 100 minutes, one hundred minutes

Number of Actors:Twenty one, 21, 13M, 8F

Ages of actors: Teens to elderly

Suitable For: All ages

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – bringing the characters to life

Set: There are three basic scenes – one, the sculpture garden; two – the dining room in Michelangelo’s home and three – Lorenzo’s study.

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Like this play? Have a look at these other alternative histories and dramas

And all his songs were sad – a musical drama about the life and works of irish songwriter Sean McCarthy

Disney in Deutschland -a drama about the relationship between Hitler and Walt Disney

Lies you can’t make up – a dram script about JFK”

 

Children's, Comedies, Musicals, Pantomimes or Fairytales, Plays in 2 acts

The Wizard of Odd – Pantomime Wizard of Oz

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THE WIZARD OF ODD – PANTOMIME WIZARD OF OZ

A modern day Dorothy living in London is transported to the land of Odd, where she meets the fabulous dame of the North and has to defeat the wicked witch of the west with the help of the brainless Scarecrow, Tin Man who lost his heart to the wicked witch, and  the Lion who has lost his Mojo. This is to prevent the catastrophic events that the wicked witch has planned in which she will take over the rule of Odd, and do away with the Wiz, all with the help of the ruby slippers.  A fun filled musical version of the traditional movie, complete with Broadway Musical numbers that will get the cast and audience tapping their feet.

Production History

St. Dallan’s Primary School, Northern Ireland, 2016
Franklin Players – Roosevelt Park, South Africa, 2016
Berwick Amateur Theatre Society, Australia – 2016
Acting UP/Unexpected Places, United Kingdom – 2016
Spag Bol Productions – Ferny grove Primary, Australia – 2017
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom – 2017
Creative Projects plus, Tasmania, Australia – 2017
The Matt Dann Theatre and Cinema , WA – Australia – 2019
Sprowston Parish Players Committee, Norfolk, UK – 2020

Have a look at this promotional video of a recent production by Spag Bol productions – Ferny Grove Primary School

Photographs all from Spag Bol productions – Ferny Grove Primary School, Australia.

Author: Claire Linda Demmer

Type:  Two-act full length musical play

Genre: Musical, Pantomime Wizard of Oz

Length: 90 minutes

Cast: 15-22 speaking characters with chorus, but many smaller parts may be doubled.

Ages of the actors ; Child to adult any age

Suitable for: All ages, family show

Set: There are three scenes – the house where Dorothy lives, the land of Odd and   Emerald city.  Sets can be constructed inexpensively using screens on wheels and backdrops to allow ease of set changes.

Level of difficulty:  7/10 – characterization.

Read more about award winning author Claire Demmer

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Dramas, Plays in 2 acts

Lies You Can’t Make Up – a drama script about JFK

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LIES YOU CAN’T MAKE UP – A DRAMA SCRIPT ABOUT JFK

 

Two-to-eight actors portray galvanizing characters in this drama script about JFK, and who he was and what he represented. The play is non-linear with flashbacks and flash forwards.  The characters are taken from history of the twentieth century and various facts are put forward about their interactions with each other, some true and some fictional.  The real question is –  Which are facts and which are fiction?

At indicated times the characters speak as a unified voice, and may be considered a Greek chorus — which initiated fervent non-linear mantras and morality tales about the complexity and inherent corruption of giving birth and rebirth to democracy.

Read more about playwright James Kent.

Author: James Kent

Genre: Historical Drama

Type: Full length drama script about JFK

Length: 120 minutes, two hours.

Actors: Two to eight actors play a variety of characters from history

Ages of the actors: Adult

Suitable for: All Ages

Set: Staging in a black box features a hierarchy of low, medium and high performance platforms. Perhaps intervals of fog suggest a non-place or, specifically, inside the human mind attuned to the American Experience.

Level of Difficulty: 8/10 – challenge lies in holding audience attention as most of the play is a conversation between characters in history.

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Like this play? Take a look at our other festival type plays

Family exercise – a short one act family drama in free verse
The Condition – a one act insane asylum piece
Twenty first century stomp – a rap drama about the recession and how it affected people’s lives

Action, Dramas, One act plays

Clear as Clear – a one act cowboy dramatic play

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CLEAR AS CLEAR – ONE ACT COWBOY DRAMATIC PLAY

 

‘Clear as Clear’ is a one act drama about five cowboys at the turn of the century who get to playing a game of cards to pass the time as there is a blizzard outside. As they play, they recall the past and how things have changed at the turn of the century USA, how the war affected them, and how they  treated the Indians that used to live there.  The plain where they live once teemed with rivers of buffalo and Indians, and now there is only silence.  Each man comes to terms with what he has done in the name of progress in this one act cowboy dramatic play.

Read more about playwright David Greenberg.

Author: David Greenberg

Type: One act cowboy dramatic play

Genre: Drama

Length: Forty five minutes

Number of actors: Five male actors (5M)

Ages of the actors: Middle aged to about sixty

Set: Simple – a room in a cabin with a table, chairs, a door and places to sleep

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – the script is interesting and the action builds toward the end. Challenge – portraying believable turn of the century hardened cowboy characters.

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Like this play? How about some of our other historical plays?

A House Divided – a civil war play

Disney in Deutschland – explores the possible relationship between Hitler and Walt Disney

 

Comedies, Dramas, One act plays

Following Dogs – two hander one act plays

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FOLLOWING DOGS – A POIGNANT COMEDY – TWO HANDER ONE ACT PLAYS

 

In this bittersweet comedy for two actors, Jack, a thirty to forty-ish year old guy, who has just lost his job as a janitor believes that he has finally found the secret to health and happiness. Jack becomes obsessed with his new found ‘elixir,’ cooking up jars of the stuff and drying it in his kitchen.  This new found obsession, coupled with the fact that Jack is terrified of having kids, because of years of abuse at the hands of his father, results in his wife leaving him.

Marty, his wife’s brother, believes in Jack, and knowing that Jack loves his wife dearly, and vice versa, tries to cure Jack of his obsession and repair the rift in his marriage.  This two-hander one act play is strictly a drama, but written in a very witty way, which allows very touchy subjects to be spoken about with humor and understanding.

Author: Tim Garvin

Genre: Drama or poignant  comedy

Type:  Two hander one act plays

Length:  One hour

Number of Actors:  Two, 2M

Ages of Actors:   Late twenties to early forties

Set: A shabby, fairly barren apartment. At right is a stove, a sink, a counter top with a toaster, a table with three chairs. There are two doors, at the back and at the side. A few prints are tacked to the wall—flowers, landscapes, a painting or two. In the center of the stage are two chairs, one well padded, the other straight-backed and wooden. Beside the well padded chair is an end table. On the stove is a covered pan.

Level of Difficulty:   7/10 – the dialogue flows well, but the actors will need to focus on the interaction between the two characters.

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Like this play?  Other two-handers we stock:

Naked – a two-hander about the pitfalls of internet dating
Two brothers – a two-hander about dealing with a parent with Alzheimer’s
A Blind date – a short comedy about two misfits getting together

Comedies, One act plays

The Chicken or the Egg – A Political Satire Script

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THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG – A POLITICAL SATIRE SCRIPT

The play is set at a court hearing of a man from rural Victoria who has been charged with sedition for publishing remarks on the internet that are deciphered as supportive of Al Qaeda. The man’s defense is that he did not publish the remarks but that his chicken had laid an egg on his computer keyboard which caused the random configuration of letters to be posted on the internet. Courtroom drama erupts as accusation fly about who really posted the comments, the defendant, the chicken…or the egg.

Author: Revelly Robinson

Type: One Act Play

Genre: Political Satire script

Number of Actors: Four  4M

Ages of the Actors: Adult

Suitable for : All Ages

Length: 15-20 minutes

Set:  Simple. A rural courtroom.  A chicken puppet is needed.  Alternatively a real chicken.

Level of Difficulty:  7/10 – keeping a straight face on stage as this script is very funny.

More plays by Revelly Robinson. Read about  playwright Revelly Robinson

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Copyright August 2013 Revelly Robinson + Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play?  Other short one act comedies for you to enjoy!

Bob – a 5 minute comedy skit about a weird guy who goes to audition for a part in a play
In the Hut – funny Irish monologue about a bus driver
Road rage – a short comedy with a twist
The Wingman -a ten minute comedy script for 3

Children's, One act plays

A Manger Carol – One Act Nativity Play

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A MANGER CAROL – A ONE ACT NATIVITY PLAY

 

Every year, in churches across the United States, children perform the story of the nativity before an audience of proud and excited parents. In many cases a large group of children are dressed up and paraded across the stage while a narrator reads the story of the birth of Christ. Often this tradition becomes boring and commonplace, even though they are acting out the greatest story ever told.

This nativity play is designed to be a little different. It initially starts off with a departure from tradition, by introducing comedic elements into what has become, through habit, a solemn proceeding. At the end the play closes with an important message about Christmas and our Savior Jesus Christ; that the story isn’t about the scenery or the costumes, but about the people in that story. A group of ordinary people who came together to take part in an extraordinary event that changed the world forever.

My hope for this play is that people will enjoy and laugh through the comedy, and then take home the message that Jesus himself often took chances, shook things up, and stepped out in faith, and that we, as his disciples, should do the same.

“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! Tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.”  – Benjamin Franklin

Author:  Richard Van Den Akker

Type: One act nativity play

Genre: Nativity play, comedy

Length:  Forty Minutes

Number of  Actors: Twenty to  Sixty  (20-60) Some of the parts can be doubled if you don’t have enough children.

Ages of the actors: A large number of children to early teens

Suitable for : All Ages

Level of Difficulty:  7/10 – many costumes.

Set:  Simple – the inn and stable can be made of of large cardboard boxes such as refrigerator boxes. There is  a lamp that needs to be plugged in but quite simple otherwise.

See other plays by Richard Van Den Akker. Read about author Richard Van Den Akker

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Like this  play? See our other Christmas Plays and children’s plays

Santa’s Holiday – a South African Christmas Play

A Contemporary Christmas Carol – a modern day version of Scrooge

Adventures of Snowy and Moe Joe in Lochloosa – a children’s play

The Wandering Bard’s Tale – a teen fairytale

 

Dramas, One act plays

John Paul Excluded from Paradise – a drama script about religion and faith

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JOHN PAUL EXCLUDED FROM PARADISE – a drama script about religion and faith

 

In this drama script about religion and faith, the Pope, John Paul who has died, approaches the pearly gates of Heaven accompanied by Michael. However, when he gets there, he is shocked to find that he is not allowed to pass through the gates by Peter.  When he asks why, all the questionable things he used his power to do are called into question, and that, despite his great faith, these actions have led to him being excluded from paradise.  This play brings up the question of faith, and belief and puts forward the point that, no matter how great your faith or how strongly you profess your faith, it is the work a person performs while they are alive that really count. It’s purpose is to get the audience thinking about the purpose and focus of faith, using the charismatic but controversial figure of  John Paul II as the catalyst.

The author will allow workshopping of the play.  Read more about playwright Mark Anthony

Author:  Mark Anthony

Genre: Religious drama

Type: Full length one act play

Length: One hour, 1 hour

Number of Actors:  Four,  3M, 1F

Ages of Actors:  One elderly, the others can be of any age

Suitable for : All ages

Set: Simple – a large desk and a chair

Level of Difficulty:  8/10 – the play is basically a discussion and the challenge of the actors will be to keep the attention of the audience.

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Like this script? Looking for other meaningful or religious dramas?

The Appointment with God – a one act family drama

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Blasphemous – a wicked tongue in cheek drama…set in hell

Boise, USA – play about the homosexuality scandal that enveloped the USA in the 1950’s.

Dramas, One act plays

A Contemporary Christmas Carol – Christmas plays

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A CONTEMPORARY CHRISTMAS CAROL – CHRISTMAS PLAYS

In modern day Beverly Hills, high powered Talent and Literary agent Elgin Scroge goes about his daily business running the shop with his one employee, Bob Cricket. It is the Christmas season of the year and Bob wants to leave early so he can buy Christmas presents for his family and Elgin finally lets him go with comments about how Elgin is left again to run the business.

The day turns to night and Elgin, who lives in his agency, pulls out the Murphy bed and prepares to go to sleep. In the middle of the night he is wakened by sounds from the Spirit of Christmas past played by a puppet. The spirit takes Elgin back in time and allows him to see how the past has formed his present situation.

The play follows the Dickens story with the Spirit of Christmas present and Christmas future, both puppets, bringing Elgin’s life to a full circle and making him realize that he has not been the man he thought he was. The play is an updated version of, A Christmas Carol, including most of the cast from the original story.

Mark Mcquown is an award winning playwright and screenplay writer.

Author: Mark Mcquown

Genre: Christmas Play

Type: Long one act play.

Length: 90 Minutes. 1.5 hours

Ages of actors:  Aged 11 and up to old age

Number of Actors:  Twelve (12) as a minimum to Thirty Two (32)  maximum. Some actors can play a no of smaller parts

Suitable for : All ages

Level of Difficulty:  8/10 – technical aspects with the ghosts and projecting scenes filmed previously on a big screen.

Set: Two main – an office cum bedroom – the main character lives in his office. The second is the Cricket household.

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Like this play? Looking for something else? Have a look at our other Christmas  scripts:

Santa’s Holiday – a South African Christmas play
Sleeping Beauty – a modern day pantomime
Shriek – hilarious panto fairytale for teens up

Comedies, Plays in 2 acts

Antibiotic – Hospital Comedy Script in two acts

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ANTIBIOTIC – A HOSPITAL COMEDY SCRIPT IN TWO ACTS

In this hospital comedy script in two acts, Wally, who is an elderly man and a member of the great unwashed, creates havoc in the male ward, whilst an unfortunate male patient who is having a problem with his genitals is placed in the female ward due to overcrowding. Back in the female ward, the patients discover that two of them know the same man (rather well) and only one of them is married to him!
This play is set in New Zealand but the content is universal and will be giggled at by audiences throughout the world.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Moartz, ACT, Australia – 2018

Author: Keith Passmore

Genre: Hospital comedy script, medical comedy script

Type: Two-act play, 2 act play

Length:Two hours, 2 hr)

Cast:  15-20 actors, fifteen to twenty

Ages of actors: Ages Twenty to Seventy 20s-70s

Suitable for: All Ages

Set:  Two hospital wards – the beds stay the same but the patients change as the lights go up and down.

Level of difficulty: 7-10 – achieving fluidity with the set changes and humour.

More about playwright Keith Passmore. Other plays by Keith Passmore

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Why affairs happen – a Bollywood style hospital drama and love story
Foulweather Friend – a two act dark comedy about bringing your audience back – from the grave
Bourgeois Behavior – a two act play about coming out of the closet

Children's, One act plays

Adventures of Moe Joe and Snowy in Lochloosa! – a children’s play

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THE ADVENTURES OF MOE JOE AND SNOWY IN LOCHLOOSA – A CHILDREN’S PLAY

 

In this children’s play, the teacher, Miss Ann, reads to her class out of a book, ” The Adventures of Moe Joe and Snowy in Lochloosa.” As she reads, the imagination of the children transports them into the book to a house on a lake where their teacher, Miss Ann and the principal of the school, Mr Timothy are married. They live with a cat and a dog in the little house. There is also a fierce alligator living in the lake that wants to eat them, but they are protected by ‘Eagle Eyes’ who sees the alligator and keeps them safe from harm. The children from the school class also play the animal creatures in the book.

Authors:  Michael Holtzhauer and Shirley Gambrell

Genre: Children’s Play

Type:  Short one act play

Length: Twenty- twenty five minutes with scene changes. 20-25 min long play

Number of Actors: Seven, play for 7 actors

Ages of the actors : Two adult, rest children or early teens

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – easy script for the kids with lots of fun. There is a spider puppet

Set: Two simple sets – one a classroom with a board and desks and chairs, the other is a lakeside cabin.

Read about authors Michael Holtzhauer and Shirley Gambrell

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Like this play? Looking for something else? Have a look at these great children’s and teen plays

The Wandering Bard’s Tale – a funny fairytale for ages 10-15

After Ever After – A full length musical for kids with all your favourite fairytale characters

The Dragons of Spring – a fairytale for young teens

Children's, Comedies, Musicals, Pantomimes or Fairytales, Plays in 2 acts

Santa’s Holiday – South African Christmas play

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SANTA’S HOLIDAY – A SOUTH AFRICAN CHRISTMAS PLAY

In this South African Christmas Play, Santa is forced to take a holiday in October by his doctor, who says the stress of being Santa is putting him at risk for a heart attack.  Santa and his wife decide to go to camping in South Africa for their holiday and drink some wine and have fun in the sun.

Unfortunately, Santa is kidnapped and held for ransom by the Tokoloshe, who keeps him in his shack until he gets the ransom. Mrs Claus cannot afford the ransom, and appeals to the embassy of the North Pole to pay it, but it isn’t their policy to pay ransoms or negotiate with kidnappers!

Time passes and Christmas eve approaches. At the North pole,  the elves and other fairytale characters are in a flat panic. In desperation they appeal to Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet to deliver the presents. Unfortunately they don’t drive and will have to deliver the presents on foot…

Author: Pillar Pringiers-Spinnox

Genre: Christmas play – full length play

Type: Two act play

Suitable for : All ages

Number of actors: Thirty two  32 – ideal for a school production

Ages of the characters/actors: Young to old but can be played by any age with makeup

Level of difficulty:  7/10 –  quite wordy

Set:  There are a number of different scenes but most can be accomplished with two simple backdrops – one for the South African scenes and the other for the North pole scenes and the odd furnishings to represent their current location.

Note: Some pop songs are incorporated in the script. The license to perform these songs may need to be acquired separately. Otherwise they can be substituted at the director’s discretion.

More about playwright Pillar Pringiers-Spinnox.  Other plays by Pillar

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Copyright July 2013 Pilar Pringiers-Spinnox and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Take a look at some of our other musicals and family plays for your Christmas show

Shriek – the hilarious musical fairytale with three princesses, two wicked witches and a bottle of ketchup
Sleeping Beauty – the pantomime with a modern day twist
The Dragons of Spring – a two-act medieval teen comedy