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Sara Elizabeth and the Everything-Just-Right Christmas

  • Jack Kurtz
  • Short Play, Christmas/Holiday, Dramatic Comedy
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780874403091

Sara Elizabeth, a precocious 9 or 10 year-old, learns that Jesus doesn't expect people to be perfect when her elaborate plans for Christmas are spoiled because her family doesn't do everything "just right."

  • Short Play
  • Christmas/Holiday, Dramatic Comedy
  • 10 minutes

  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Jr High/Primary, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Church / Religious Groups
Sara Elizabeth, a precocious 9 or 10 year-old, learns that Jesus doesn't expect people to be perfect when her elaborate plans for Christmas are spoiled because her family doesn't do everything "just right."

Published in Christmas, Aliens, Gargoyles, and Everything-Just-Right.

  • Casting: 2M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Features Children, Color blind casting, Roles for Children
  • Casting Notes: All readers sometimes narrate, sometimes play a specific character. Skillful adult readers could play the children's roles. However, the production is at its best when children can be found who read well and can project the characters' emotions.