title: The Big Book of Holiday Plays: 31 One-Act Plays, Curtain Raisers, and Adaptations for the Celebration of Holidays and Special Occasions Round the Year
author: Sylvia E. Kamerman
description: Grade 4-8-- Following the course of the school year, these plays provide material for major and minor events. Flat characters, larger-than-life historic figures, and colloquial dialogue (however, " . . . blew me away" is inappropriate in a Civil War piece) make them readily accessible to young performers. The production notes are not particularly helpful, and some props--a working coffin, an antique tube--may be difficult to obtain. Although single-parent families are depicted, there is a stereotyping of sex roles, and it is disconcerting to meet Irish servants. Two plays for Black History Month, one about Martin Luther King Jr., give this title an advantage over Sechrist's New Plays for Red Letter Days (McCrae Smith, 1953; o.p.). Miller's Plays for Living and Learning (1955) covers additional topics besides holidays; Bennett's Creative Plays and Programs (1966, both Plays, Inc.; o.p.) features poems, choral readings, and a larger selection. --Meryl Silverstein, American Museum of Natural History, New York City<br />Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  THE PIGEON
  
  
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  # THE PIGEON. A Fantasy in Three Acts
  
  
  ### John Galsworthy
  
  
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  PERSONS OF THE PLAY
  
  
  CHRISTOPHER WELLWYN, an artist
  
  
  ANN, his daughter
  
  
  GUINEVERE MEGAN, a flower-seller
  
  
  RORY MEGAN, her husband
  
  
  FERRAND, an alien
  
  
  TIMSON, once a cabman
  
  
  EDWARD BERTLEY, a Canon
  
  
  ALFRED CALWAY, a Professor
  
  
  SIR THOMAS HOXTON, a Justice of the Peace
  
  
  Also a police constable, three humble-men, and some curious persons
  
  
  
  
  
  The action passes in Wellwyn's Studio, and the street outside
  
  
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  ACT I. Christmas Eve.
  
  
  ACT II. New Year's Day.
  
  
  ACT III. The First of April.
  
  
  
  
  
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  It is the night of Christmas Eve, the SCENE is a Studio, flush
  
  
    
  with the street, having a skylight darkened by a f