PSHS Thespian Troupe 1540 presents – A Christmas Story

Humorist Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s
follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun
under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher
and even Santa Claus himself at Higbee’s Department Store. The consistent response:
“You’ll shoot your eye out!” All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family’s temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully;
the boys’ experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie
decoder pin; Ralphie’s father winning a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg in a net
stocking; Ralphie’s fantasy scenarios and more.

Author: Adapted by Philip Grecian , Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock Illinois