Dickens of a Christmas, A

Holiday Plays

By: Dwayne Yancey
Cast: 3 M, 3 F
Performance Time: Approximately 90-120 minutes, 94 pgs

HOLIDAY COMEDY. Christmas is just a few days away and two poor street orphans, Lily and Rose, are yearning for a proper Christmas dinner. But since they don’t have a ghost of a chance of escaping the grinding poverty they were born into, they conspire with two other orphans, Toby and Percy, to masquerade as ghosts from Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” to convince Lady Crumblebum to invite them for Christmas dinner. Instead, the famously grumpy Lady Crumblebum sends shivers down the “ghosts” spines and tasks them with reuniting her with her long-lost love in exchange for Christmas dinner. This may be a crazy request, but in this case, fraud may be the key to success! Easy to stage with one-liners for everyone in the cast. Perfect for comminity theatres. Check out Dwayne Yancey’s other hilarious comedies featuring Rose and Lily, "This Rose Has Thorns" and "An Improper Education for an Improper Lady."

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Dwayne Yancey is a playwright from the Blue Ridge Mountains whose plays have been produced in 47 states and 17 countries. Mr. Yancey is a veteran of the community theatre stage.