DREIDEL – JEWISH CHILDREN’S PLAYS
A lovely Jewish children’s play set around the festival of Chanukah. A grandparent tells his young granddaughter, Rachel the story of a miracle, that occurred when he was just eight years old. It tells how he accidentally broke his Dreidel that he had carefully made for Chaunkah, and how he was unable to get clay to make another. Until a miracle happened.
Production History:
Neighborhood Playhouse, Decatur GA – 2005
OnStage Atlanta, Decatur, GA – 2011
Westwood High School, TX, USA – 2017
National Public Radio selected “Dreidel” to be broadcast as part of NPR’s annual “Hanukkah Lights” program in December 2017
Among the stations carrying it:
Iowa Public Radio: Ames/Des Moines WOI 104.7 FM
Northern Public Radio: WNIU 90.5
KSTX – San Antonio: 89.1
WABE Atlanta – 90.1: https://www.npr.org/series/hanukkah-lights/ and as a podcast, via https://www.npr.org/2017/12/06/566900064/hanukkah-lights-2017?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr
And on WBAA 105.9FM, also via podcast: http://wbaa.org/post/hanukkah-lights-2017#stream/0
Read more about award winning playwright Evan Guilford-Blake. Other plays by Evan Guilford-Blake.
Author: Evan Guilford-Blake
Genre: Jewish Children’s Play
Type: Short one act play
Length: 15 minutes
Number of actors: Five, 2M 2F 1M/F
Ages of the actors: Two older(or made up) one middle aged(or made up) and two children
Suitable for: Children round eight years old
Set: Simple. Just a chair and possibly other decorations in a room
Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – getting the characters right
Read a Sample of the Script
Cost is $6 for the digital script
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Copyright © 2005, 2008 as an unpublished dramatic work by
Guilford-Blake Corp
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A fairly tall adventure – full length children’s adventure story
Adevntures of Mojoe and Snowy in Lochloosa – short children’s play
