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These little plays were written for the classes and clubs of a small Sunday-school, where the Christmas celebration consisted of a play to introduce Santa Claus and a Christmas-tree. They are equally suitable for children at home or in day schools, and they have been so used. In most of the plays children greatly enjoy playing the adult parts and do good work in them. But several of the adult role... More

These little plays were written for the classes and clubs of a small Sunday-school, where the Christmas celebration consisted of a play to introduce Santa Claus and a Christmas-tree. They are equally suitable for children at home or in day schools, and they have been so used. In most of the plays children greatly enjoy playing the adult parts and do good work in them. But several of the adult roles call for adult players, because a deeper appreciation of the feeling contained in the story is required than can be given by girls in their teens. Such parts are the Babushka, the Mother in The Christ Candle, and the Mother in Toinette. Partly for the same reason, a man should be chosen for the Abbot in The Christmas Monks, but also his presence will lend dignity, and much greater orderliness to rehearsals in a play with a large cast. The last two plays, adapted from stories by wellknown writers, Minty-M alviny s Santa Claus and The Hundred, were not especially intended for children, but as parlor plays for home production. These two throw heavier work upon a single child than any of the other plays, but though they were made with special children in view, it would not be difficult to find, in any group of children, a little girl who could play Minty or Tibbie as well as those for whom the parts were first made.
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