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• Christmas plays and skits are a popular pastime during the holidays, whether they take place at a local church, school or community theater. If you're group is looking for the perfect play or skit this Christmas season, browse through the links on this page.

• Fast Facts

  1. Christmas celebrated December 25th each year all over the worldAbout.com: When is Christmas 2008
  2. In 2009, Christmas falls on a Friday
  3. Classic stories can be adapted for stage
  4. Popular onstage productions include The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol and A Charlie Brown Christmas
  5. Many religious skits and plays center around the birth of the Christ child
  6. Some skits include puppets
  7. Schools and church groups often put on children's productions

• The Nativity Plays

  Did you know that during the middle ages people had all but lost interest in celebrating the Christmas holiday? In the year 1223 St. Francis of Assisi combined theatre with Christmas carols with his famous Nativity plays. The people in the audience could get involved and sing along, as singers acted out the story in each song.Why Christmas?: The History of Christmas Carols

• Adapting a Story Into a Play

  If you have a favorite Christmas story that hasn't yet been adapted for the stage, you can write the adaptation yourself. Here are a couple of tips to help you through your adaptations:

  1. Read, read, read the story until you know all of the details inside and out.
  2. Think of how you can commit the story to the stage without the space gaps that fill many novels and stories.
  3. Stay faithful to the overall "story" rather than the plot for plot details.Scene4 InView: Adapting A Novel into a Play

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