Check out;- http://www.doollee.com/plays/plays-c.html There are heaps of 'ACC' plays listed there - happy hunting!

It dosent happen that often here!

There again Pantos are also a rare thing, although two traditional [Pohmy] ones have just been produced recently. 

Normally most ameatre groups pull the pin, during the christmas summer holiday period, by going black & fire back up in late January.

So Christmas is not on the boards of most comeatre seasons.

Edited by JoeMc - 12/26/10 at 4:42pm

Saw a really interesting production locally this year called "A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley".  Adapted from Dickens by Israel Horowitz.  Available through Dramatists Play Service.  It's the classic tale, but with Jacob Marley as the narrator.  In fact, as the title suggests, Scrooge and Marley are essentially equal roles.  It's great, especially if you have two strong actors.  You might take a look at it.

I also directed a production a couple of years ago called "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol" by Tom Mula; also through Dramatists Play Service.  It's a one-man show that's also available as a four-man version, which I chopped a little further into a seven-man show - three women and four men acting all of the parts.  The twist in this show is that Marley arrives in the afterworld and is given one shot at personal redemption; he has to return to earth and redeem his old partner, Ebenezer Scrooge.  All of the ghosts that visit Scrooge are actually one - Jacob Marley.  The end is wonderful, as Jacob Marley finds a new eternal calling - redeeming lost souls.  I highly recommend this one.


Edited by edh915 - 12/27/10 at 10:32am

Our CT is celebrating its 85th season by doing a "greatest hits" season -- that is, we're re-mounting plays that we've had good/great success with in the recent past.

A Christmas Carol is the play we have produced most often over the last 85 years.  (5 years in a row 1968 thru 1972; once in 2002).

I read TWENTY different stage adaptations of the thing (17 from the usual recognized publishers; 3 unpublished versions).  CRITERIA = full-length (not one-act) and NON-musical.  Most of them were the same-old-same-old plus or minus a line/scene here or there.  Only TWO of these stage adaptations stood out from the pack, because of a freshness of the take the author chose.

A Christmas Carol adapted by Michael Paller, published by Samuel French.  In which it is Christmas Eve 1843, and Charles Dickens is having people over for a dinner party; when they ask him to tell them all a Christmas story he refuses, bustles them all up into the 3rd floor attic (where his trunks of theatrical costumes, etc. are stored), and he gets them to act out all the parts in his brand new story.  10 actors (including 2 children) playing 40+ parts.  Unit set (the attic).  Costumes ranged from full to just bits.  We loved this one.

Scrooge by Warren Graves, published by Playwrights Guild of Canada.  Very small cast, unit set (more or less), a nearly complete re-write, faithful to the original story & characters but approached anew.  Unexpectedly engaging.  Adapted from a Canadian TV special in 1978, I think.  We didn't do this one, but it would have been our next choice.