|
Cast: |
10 (6m 4f). |
| Suggested
Age Range: |
14-18 (also suitable
for an adult cast) |
| Approx.
Running Time: |
30 minutes. |
|
Music: |
One character
plays on an electronic keyboard a few bars of the well-known and
easy-to-perform Little Donkey by Eric Boswell, and the play ends with a second
character picking out that tune with one finger. It is important that the tune
is played each time to a rumba beat. We Wish You a Merry Christmas and a verse
of Good King Wenceslas are sung unaccompanied during the play. |
|
Set: |
A living room with
Yamaha organ, basic furniture, Christmas Tree. |
|
Synopsis: |
On Christmas Eve, Fred
Foskett makes increasingly frantic attempts to prevent discovery of the fact
that the Yamaha organ he is giving his wife has been stolen from one of the
carol-singing neighbours who, one by one, fill his living room. Unknown to Fred
when taking receipt of the instrument from his partners in crime, Stig and
Harvey, it is faulty and plays only with a rumba beat. During the action, Stig
phones Fred several times to tell him that the police are examining his
warehouse. The play ends with a chase, when the organ is played, Fred is
exposed, Stig and Harvey arrive on the scene in a panic, and one of the carol
singers who is also a policeman tries to make some arrests. |
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