A Collection of Short Christmas Plays: Short Christmas Plays

By Liam Petersen

When Santa's plans for delivering Christmas presents like usual are ruined by a global pandemic, a team of elf executives and the Clauses need to adapt and create a makeshift plan to still get the presents delivered in time for Christmas morning. Everything has been cancelled, delayed or rescheduled. You can't move Christmas – and you certainly can't cancel it. Will Santa be able to wrap and deliver the presents COVID safely in time? Can the community band together to make sure Santa makes his deadline and the children around the world can smile and laugh after the toughest, most unpredictable year in a generation?

 

When Captain Hook and his parrot sidekick Snigger escape from the book Peter Pan, they plot to ruin Christmas and take over the world. Freshly minted Secret Elf Service Agents Pine and Pudding are trying everything in their power to stop him and help save Santa Claus – but a lack of experience does them no good.

 

Santa has to close down his Presents Factory after revolutionising the categorisation system because the world is plagued with Not Yet Nice and Sometimes Nice children. In fact, just three Consistently Nice children remain! Santa requests these children make the trip to the North Pole, seemingly to crown one as his replacement. But the Bad Guy has other ideas, and he knows more about the children than even they know…

 

Santa is extremely technology enthused and has introduced a wide multitude of new and innovative upgrades to streamline and upgrade the efficiency of his entire process this Christmas. But all this has come at the expensive cost of losing the magic and tradition of Christmas – which Santa's closest advisors aren't willing to compromise. Innovative technologies are the future, but can Santa and his helpers work out a way to combine both the power and efficiency of brand-new tech with the traditions and magic of old? Filled with laughs and fun, this short Christmas play also contains an entire conversation written by an artificial intelligence.

 

Santa strikes a deal with the Australian Prime Minister to use their coal for punishing the naughty kids across the globe, but Mrs Claus and the elves aren't happy. Awakened by the damage he must be causing to the environment, Santa and his team of executives must band together to try and turn this Christmas around. Their comedic ideas for an 'innovative' carbon-neutral plan are sure to get you laughing.

 

Once upon a time, in a land named Terror, there were three princes. They were kind, happy and joyful - but their parents certainly weren't. One night, the Princes overheard an evil plot and decide to make the long journey to request Santa Claus' help. A plan is concocted, but it will be hard to execute. Can they make it in time to stop their parents and save the kingdom of Terror?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Liam Petersen
• Release date: Dec 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215190197

Book preview

Characters

Characters:

Santa

Head Elf

Mrs Claus

Deputy Head Elf

Elf COVID Marshall

Border Control Officer

Scene 1

(Santa, Mrs Claus and Elf COVID Marshal are sitting, 1.5 metres away, at a large table in Santa’s Secret Meeting Room, SSMR. The COVID-19 disease is going to make Christmas difficult this year and Santa isn’t sure how to overcome it. Lights up.)

Santa: What are we going to do? This COVID disease is going to ruin Christmas. No one will get their presents! We won’t even be able to wrap them in time, let alone deliver!

Mrs Claus: Now, now Santa! It’ll all turn out all right. (Leans closer to Santa)

Elf COVID Marshal: Excuse me, madam, 1.5 metres please!

Santa: Back off, mate! We’re family. I wouldn’t have hired you if I’d known you’d try to enforce a law that doesn’t exist!

Elf COVID Marshal: (mutters) It should exist. (louder, to Santa) Sorry, sir!

Mrs Claus: Anyway, Santa. Christmas will go ahead, we just need to work out how to work around COVID, that’s all.

Santa: (half-heartedly) Ok, I’ll call a meeting. (shouting) Head Elf, Deputy Head Elf, come in here!

(Head Elf and Deputy Head Elf run in from the right, out of breath and panting hard.)

Head Elf: Here we are sir!

Deputy Head Elf: What do you need us for sir!

Elf COVID Marshal: (yelling) ONE POINT FIVE METRES EVERYONE!!!

Head Elf & Deputy Head Elf: (yelling back while taking seats 1.5 metres apart) SORRY!

Santa: I’ve brought you in because we need to discuss how we can wrap the presents.

Deputy Head Elf: Um, with paper?

Head Elf: (sighs) I’m guessing he means with fewer elves in the workshop because of physical distancing and the four square-metres rule.

Deputy Head Elf: I was, ah, kidding?

Mrs Claus: The Head Elf is correct; we don’t have enough elves allowed in the workshop to wrap all the presents in time.

Santa: We need your help to come up with ideas.

Head Elf: Send the presents home to the elves for them to wrap? We could trial it, or set up a volunteer system for the community to come and wrap some of the presents.

Santa: Interesting idea, I reckon either of those will work. The only thing is how secret we want to keep this operation.

Mrs Claus: I like the idea of getting the community involved, giving them something different to do and spreading hope after such a tough year.

Head Elf: Sounds good!

Mrs Claus: Also, we can stage it as an organisation wanting to deliver presents to the world to bring joy to children’s faces. Which, essentially, is what we do.

Elf COVID Marshal: Remember we have to make sure everyone is socially distanced if we do go ahead with the volunteering idea.

Deputy Head Elf: We can rent out the town hall or a warehouse or something. That way, there’s more space.

Santa: Yep, I reckon the volunteering from the community idea works best. Head Elf, you work on the time rotations for which elves are allowed into the workshop at a time.

Head Elf: Sure thing, Santa! Deputy, can you work on renting out a large space?

Deputy Head Elf: I’ll get on it right away! (Pulls out a laptop to start working)

Elf COVID Marshal: Wait a minute! Deputy Head Elf, try and see if you can get an outdoor space instead, that way there’s less chance of spreading COVID.

Head Elf: Smart idea, COVID Marshal! Do what he suggests, Deputy. (Deputy Head Elf gives him the thumbs up)

Santa: That’s a relief! Well done everyone for working together to find a solution. Now all we need is some volunteers and Christmas will be under way!

Everyone: Hooray!