Happy Grinch Day!
Did you know December 5 is Grinch Day? Happy Grinch Day! Enjoy some Theatrical grinchy Fun this year! Before you eat those green Grinch cookies and after you color in that Grinch paper plate mask, why not embody the spirit of being a grinchy grump by taking the course, GRINCHING 101? Okay, you don’t really have to take the class, but you can read the play, Grinching 101, in your class! Yes, Grinching 101 works not only as a play for production, but it’s actually fun Reader’s Theater too—lots of parts of various lengths (which you can swap around), 30-40 minutes, fun silliness, but also has a sweet message in the end. And come on, your students get to play characters with ridiculous names Merry Berry Cheery Cherry and Killjoy Cactus Snarl! The play is about a roomful of cheery elves who are trying to learn how to become grumpy grinchy Christmas elves. And they’re failing. Miserably. But by the end, they’ll learn a thing or two, and their sour teachers just might learn a thing or two also (it is Christmas, after all!). Get the play below:
In this 30-40 minute Christmas comedy for 16+ actors of any gender, Grinching 101 professors, Sourpuss Fuddy Duddy and Killjoy Cactus Snarl, are pleased to find their classroom filled with eager elf-students desiring to learn the art of becoming a grinchy elf. However, the class of bright-eyed cheerful students are blatantly failing. Every. Single. Lesson. Can these professors get the class of chipper elves to learn anything about becoming a good Christmas grinch? And perhaps along the way, can the Grinching professors can learn something from the elves?
You can also check out these monologues from Grinching 101:
Tootsie Frosted Cookie Stockings’ monologue, Forbidden in the Elf Manual.
Fluffy McWaffles Tart’s monologue, Jingle Bell Hater.
AND if you’re looking for another Grinching piece of theater, here’s a stand-alone monologue called, Grinching Mom, written by Luke B. when he was 6 years old! (How cool is that to have a kid perform a monologue written by a kid?)
Max is caught red-handed taking his mom’s lamp into his room. He has a good reason for this, but it’s not what his mom is expecting! Find out the meaning of “grinching” someone in this 1-minute comedic monologue written by guest playwright, 6-year-old, Luke B! This is for a male or female child actor.
However you celebrate, enjoy the holiday fun, and the spirit of kindness, compassion and generosity!