Reindeer Revolt at Santa's Workshop, A

Holiday Plays

By: Lavinia Roberts
Cast: 2 M, 3 F, 12 flexible
Performance Time: Approximately 45-60 minutes, 37 pgs.

HOLIDAY COMEDY w/MUSIC. It’s just two weeks until Christmas Eve, and Santa’s reindeer are training hard for their big flight. All goes well until Gabby, a new reindeer, charms the hooves off of Santa’s reindeer by telling them that they are so talented they don’t need to practice. Instead of training, the reindeer follow Gabby around singing, dancing, and eating. Gabby even butters up Santa and convinces him to give her Blixen’s job. With Gabby as the new head reindeer, Comet and Dasher sprain their ankles goofing around, Dancer gets a bad case of fleas, and Donner gets a stomachache from eating too many apples. Gabby declares that the reindeer are now free agents and calls for them to strike on Christmas Eve. No cash, no sleigh ride! And to make matters worse, Jack Frost and the Snow Queen create the snowstorm of the century!

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Lavinia Roberts is an award-winning playwright and educator. She has a MA in Theatre Education from New York University and an MFA in Playwriting from Southern Illinois University. Roberts has been a theatre teacher for more than a decade. She is an Assistant Professor and Murphy Fellow in Theatre Arts at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas.