Christmas Incorporated.

Christmas Incorporated is a play for three women and six others, either male or female, set in a small child's bedroom."What's the spirit of Christmas? Asks the child as she settles down to write the customary letter to Father Christmas. Before her, the Educational Psychologist and F.C.P.A battle over what toys the child ought to have with science versus commercialism. As the toys are paraded the child makes her own imaginative adjustments until she is so confused she discards them in a tantrum. F.C.P.A. and the Educational Psychologist each go their own way, neither really the wiser. But the Child has learnt the meaning of the true spirit of Christmas - trying to make everybody happy.

This has been one of my most successful one-act plays and has been performed regularly over the last twenty years.Part of its success is no doubt due to the fact that it can be performed by any age group, female or mixed sex, making it suitable for almost any drama group.It was given a professional radio performance in 85 and translated into Dutch in 96. ISBN 0 573 12034 X

 Incidently, the child is always played by an adult.

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Published by  Samuel French