Finding and Making Beauty in Wounded Places


Laugh!

Channel your inner lion (or peacock)!

Support a great cause!

   

   Christmas Fun: A One-Act Interactive Play for Humans is a short drama in which a variety of animals gather together to debate who among them ought to go to Bethlehem to attend the baby Jesus.    


This short play is laugh-out-loud funny when you read it by yourself and a hilarious great time when you enact it with friends or co-workers.   

And for one day only, Monday, December 12, when you buy a copy of Christmas Fun, playwright Reggie Marra will donate $3.00 of your purchase to Radical Joy for Hard Times!   

Here's a chance to have fun playing characters from a not-quite historic menagerie and support the Radical Joy for Hard Times mission of helping communities around the world cope with the loss of the places they love by finding and making beauty there.

Christmas Fun takes about 10-15 minutes to organize (i.e. assign and agree on roles) and about 15-20 minutes to "perform." The cost to buy a copy is $17.97.
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In our Radical Joy for Hard Times Global Earth Exchanges, people have honored many animal species: bats, dolphins, Gulf Coast oysters, pelicans, and more. While these esteemed beings may not have starring roles in Christmas Fun, their brother and sister animals do! 

  
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About Reggie Marra
and the Origin of
Christmas Fun! 
 










 

Reggie Marra is a poet, coach, teacher, and workshop leader who believes that everyone is creative and supremely capable of proving it. He teaches young people and adults. He has published four books--two volumes of poetry, and two of nonfiction.

 

Christmas Fun received its debut in 1997 when Reggie introduced it to a group of poets and writers at the Hudson Valley Writers Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY. For the next nine years, the group came together each December to read, express their inner animals, and laugh together.

 

 

Whose Christmas Fun?

About the types of ensembles who love enacting his play Reggie Marra writes: 
 
Family: "The multi-coursed meal is [over]. Smart phones, tablets, laptops and the brand-spanking-new, internet-ready, 3-D TV with the screen so big that you have to turn your head from side to side to follow the action, are all engaged! Everyone is screen-staring.... You, yes, you decide to pull the plug on it all. You whip out your pre-printed copies of Christmas Fun, distribute them, agree on the roles, and commence. Suddenly, glazed eyes come alive, opposable thumbs remember how to cooperate with other fingers and turn 8 � x 11 inch, non-virtual pages, and not-pre-recorded voices embody the reflections of 21st-century animals."  
 
Colleagues at work: "Gone are the mundane inanities uttered during holiday parties past! It's time for some research-based, historical play-acting. And...you all get to play animal roles."
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Click here to order Christmas Fun! and support Radical Joy for Hard Times

 



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