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Festival plays

Chapter 21: Characters
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About This Book

A collection of short one-act pieces crafted for seasonal celebration, each written for a particular holiday—New Year’s, St. Valentine’s Day, Easter, a child’s birthday, Hallowe’en, and Christmas. The scripts mix allegory, folk legend, and light comedy, employing emblematic personages, romantic or miraculous episodes, and moral-testing tableaux, often framed as pageant-like scenes. Practical staging guidance, including costume notes, song and dance cues, and simple scenic directions, accompanies each play to support amateur or school performances. The overall tone balances whimsical spectacle with gentle moral instruction, offering accessible pieces for communal or domestic festal entertainment.

A CHRISTMAS PARTY

Christmas

Characters

Three Lobs, Lob here, Lob there, Lob everywhere.

Three Present-day Children: Ethel who is called Babs, Janet called Beeswax, and Richard called Dick.

Some Children of History and Fable, including Christopher Columbus, Peter Schlemihl, Sleeping Beauty and Napoleon.

Santa Claus.

The Father and Mother.