Rex McGregor
Site search
  • Rex McGregor
  • Archive
  • Awards
  • Short Plays
    • Threatened Panda Fights Back
    • The Birds Are Feeding Me
    • Grow Up, Juliet
    • Grace Finds Kel
    • Monstrous Villainy
    • Garage Invasion
    • Ebook Meets Treebook
    • Rich Pickings
    • Prepper's Nightmare
    • Tickle That Dragon
    • Happy Husband Hunting
    • Amazons of Tomorrow
    • Flight of the Cows
    • Gruesome Gift
    • Fight for the Apron
    • She's Got His Number
    • Don't Flip Your Snood
    • The Tarantula's Pet Frog
    • Proud Mary and Prejudiced Lydia
    • The Mama and the Papa
    • Unromantic Bouquet
    • Prisoners' Choice
    • Ambitious Cutlery
    • Surfing in Munich
    • Eleventh Night
    • Your Server Tonight Is Cassandra
    • Shelter in Comfort
    • The Girl Who Would Rather Not Grow Up Just Yet
    • Feline High-Rise Syndrome
    • This Particular Crevasse
    • The Name of Action
    • Fit for a King
    • A Supportive Wife Supports Her Wife
    • Cathy Haunts Catherine
    • Lullaby for a Librarian
    • Cobra Versus Tiger
    • Fingers and Toeses
    • Dueling Judges
    • Rival Pseudonyms
    • Mother of Chemistry
    • Taking the Plunge
    • Played for a Sap
    • Cheerleaders and Cheeseburgers
    • Wayward Seniors
    • Marked for Deletion
    • Bigger Move
    • Catching Hendrix
    • Ngā Wai o Te Tairāwhiti
    • Stage Fights Screen
    • Restoring Romeo
    • President Charles Evans Hughes
    • Almost Immortal
    • Pushing Buttons
    • Friendly Skirmish
    • Rabbit Warns Gannet
    • Librarians Embrace Fiction
    • Money Talks Too Loud
    • Never Say DEI
    • Miriam's Mother
    • Retha's First March
    • Trumpettes Anonymous
    • Table in the Air
    • Fruitful
    • Thrill of the Circus
    • Rivals-Slash-Friends
    • Triple Helping
    • Throw Me Out
    • One Wish Each
    • Welcome to Belarus
    • Phony on a Twig
    • Val's Remedy
    • The Top Seed and the Poor Seedlings
    • Helga Goes Bats
    • Disorderly Beulah
    • Henry the Seventh (If Shakespeare Was Honest)
    • Pseudo-Human Resources
    • Grounding Santa
    • Help Found
    • Subversive Action Chick
    • Rasha and Abd
    • Horror at Sea
    • Aleema the Boy Girl
    • Who Remembers Éponine’s Sister?
    • Fire Up
    • Marietta's Ultimatum
    • Love Those Cockroaches
    • Murder Runs in Our Family
    • Public Deaths
    • Gab Irish-Like
    • Orpheus Floats
    • Fraught Hike
    • Guts Out
    • Sugar Horror
    • Becky and Tom
    • Vegan Vigilantes
    • Phenomenals Anonymous
    • Zany Planets
    • Battle for the Front Seat
    • Kindness Pays
    • Natasha Toughs It Out
    • Beauty Store Saboteur
    • Fiery
    • Worst Villain
    • Save the Sasquatch
    • Her Daughter's Doll
    • We Aren't Aliens
    • Cushion
    • Party Crasher on a Mission
    • Stuck Fast
    • Next Door Nativity
    • Estella Expects a Lot
    • Canary Now
    • Enemies on a Date
    • The Flames of Patience
    • Graffiti Yarn
    • Family Tries
    • Tina, Queen of Scots
    • Squicky
    • Squishy
    • Squirmy
    • Squirrelly
    • Thin End
    • Higgledy-Trilogy
    • Speechless
    • Geordie Heroine
    • Siege Ready
    • Inventive Dream
    • Elegant Rescue
    • Handling Temptation
    • The Fruits of Lust
    • Horrifying Mary
    • Possible Fathers
    • Refloat Our Whale
    • Swinging Campers
    • Fiery
    • Subversive Action Gal
    • Chat with That
    • Jane Errant
    • Smile on a Mask
    • Two Divided by One
    • Two Minus Infinity
    • Two Times Ex
    • Skull Against the Sky
    • The Ghostly Christmas Pest
    • The Ecstasy of Carmel
    • All's Fair in Tug of War
    • Unsuspecting Donor
    • Toothlessness Bites
    • Lost Judgment
    • Help Full
    • Help Less
    • Quick Light Touch
    • Kurt and Orla
    • They Never Leave Their Wives
    • Turn of the Tidier
    • Tui and the Immortal
    • The Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover
    • Best Chance Café
    • Roasting Death
    • Absconding Patient
    • Fountain of Youth
    • The Power of Enchantment
    • Clash of the Lorde Fans
    • The First Christmas Presents
    • Grandis, Juliette
    • Herding Catastrophes
    • Penelope's Feast
    • Extreme Decluttering
    • Courtesy
    • Twilight of the Grizzly
    • Thirteenth Night
    • Love and Acoustics
    • Creaky
    • Croon
    • Boot's Trip
    • Nature Soothes
    • Fern and Her Father
    • Abigail Wades In
    • Tempting Sabah
    • Unfurl
    • Eradicting Apathy
    • Revitalized
    • Who Loves More
    • Chest-Beating for Gentlemen
    • That's No Mannequin (That's His Wife)
    • Put Down the Gun
    • Shredded
    • It Could Be Anyone
    • Skull
  • Plays
    • I Love an Earthling
    • Queen Takes Emperor
    • Sunshine in Every Window
    • Margaret Thatcher Changes the World
    • Tricky Intervention
    • Girls Rock the Classics
    • Izzy Sticks With It
    • Lady Godiva Doesn't Ride Again
    • Birds and Money
    • Three Weird Mornings at the Library
    • New Partners
    • Thena and Taz
    • Rogue Flight
    • Manipulative
    • Honest Shakespeare
    • Miss Imposter
    • Impending Intimacy
    • Poor Doug
    • Female Scientists to the Rescue
    • Girls on the Brink
    • Grow Up, Girls
    • Brink Time
    • The Sword and the Gown
    • Touchy
    • Safe Trip
    • It's Ours! The Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover, 1971
    • Pacific Caper
    • Stale Obsession
    • A Hard Fifty Years' Night
    • Nine Plays Wonder
    • Clash of the Delusions
    • Who's Manipulative?
    • Margaret Thatcher Hits New Zealand
    • Wind Above the Water
    • Plights
    • Choose
    • All Aboard
    • Lady Godiva Womans Up
    • Unpardonable Virtues
    • Nude with Tuba and Skull
    • Triple Fandango
    • Snatched
    • Hour of Misjudgement
  • Audio plays
    • Contains Nudity
    • This Particular Crevasse
    • Suspect Sleuths
    • Wind Above the Water
    • Lament of the Failed Alcoholic
    • Above the Stave
    • Finesse
    • A Flying Visit
  • Monologues
    • None of Your Blarney
    • Olive Struts and Frets
    • Sweet Fright
    • Farsighted
    • Tabby's Plague Diary
    • Boot's Vacation
    • Nourishing Marion
    • Missing Applause
    • Will Kemp's Turn
    • Frida Kahlo Must Be Jewish
    • An Educated Palate
    • Fern's Plan
    • Sweetness and Light
    • The One Waving
    • The Reluctant Barker
    • Shakespeare's Protestation
    • The Frog-Footman's Statement
    • Cassandra Vents
    • A Bride for the Pope
    • Beaver Loves Otter
    • Derrick's Tactic
    • Post-Baby Body
    • Innocent Glutton
    • Phoenix on Ice
    • Carriage Horse Chat
    • Kia Orāna, Joe
    • Tightlipped
    • Elizabeth's Revenge
    • The Movement You Need
    • Officially Recovered
    • The Roses or the Bat
    • Lady Godiva's Daughter
    • Friar Oswald's Confession
    • Let's Just Chill
    • Erica, Oswald and Shakespeare
    • Speechless
    • The Clueless Bishop
    • Your Attention, Please
    • Paddy's Spiel
  • Links
  • Contact
  • Published Scripts
  • Musicals
    • BonanzaLear
    • Possible Fathers
    • Space Dancers
  • Books
    • Laugh with Jesus
    • Cuisine for Angels
  • Collaboration
    • Dinah Might

Next Door Nativity

10-Minute Comedy
Sal and Zeb are staying at an inn in Bethlehem. They managed to get the last available room—unlike the couple in the stable next door.

CHARACTERS
SAL (Mary Salome)    an ambitious young mother of twin babies
ZEB (Zebedee)          Sal’s husband, an easy-going fisherman
SIMON                       a troubled teenage boy, working as an armed guard                                            

SETTING
An upper room in an inn, Bethlehem             

TIME
First day A.D.

(online reading)
Tiger's Heart Players
New York, NY
​​December 22, 2024

​Cast: Mae Ruling (Sal), Jona Zeschke (Zeb), Aliona Garcia (Simon)
Picture
Mae Ruling (Sal), Jona Zeschke (Zeb) and Aliona Garcia (Simon)

​(online reading)
P.A.G.E.S.
New York, NY
​December 21, 2021

​Cast: Lauren Proda (Sal), Wayne Joseph (Zeb), Daniel Strausman (Simon) 
Picture
Wayne Joseph (Zeb), Lauren Proda (Sal) and Daniel Strausman (Simon)

(online reading)
Festive Times
​
Literary and Discourse Society
Exeter, UK
​December 19, 2021

​​Cast: Coral Dickinson (Sal), Georgette Vale (Zeb), John Patrick Bray (Simon) 
Picture
Georgette Vale (Zeb), Coral Dickinson (Sal) and John Patrick Bray (Simon)

(online reading)
Festivus
Playwrights on Zoom
Brick Township, New Jersey
December 17-18, 2021

​Cast: Nancy Fay (Sal), Fred Weintraub (Zeb), Ed Schilter (Simon) 

Directed by Jade Greene
Picture
Fred Weintraub (Zeb), Nancy Fay (Sal) and Ed Schilter (Simon)

(online reading)
Tuesdays at 9 Chicago

Naked Angels
Chicago, Illinois
​December 14, 2021


​Cast: Meg Elliott (Sal), Tony Bozzuto (Zeb), Robbie Ellis (Simon) 
Picture
Tony Bozzuto (Zeb), Meg Elliott (Sal) and Robbie Ellis (Simon)

(online reading)
Dunne's Downtime Players
Eldersburg, Maryland
December 12, 2021

​Cast: Diane DiLillo Gutierrez (Sal), Harvey Newman (Zeb), Dennis Moran (Simon) 
Picture
Dennis Moran (Simon) and Diane DiLillo Gutierrez (Sal)

(online reading)
Anything Goes! Theatre Lab
ANDTheatre Company
New York, NY
​
December 8, 2021 

Cast: Maggie Pitt (Sal), David Kubicka (Zeb), John Lampe (Simon) 
Picture
David Kubicka (Zeb), Maggie Pitt (Sal) and John Lampe (Simon)

(online reading)
​Moving Parts
Paris, France
December 20, 2020

Cast: Emmanuelle Zagoria (Sal), Dario Costa (Zeb), Eliot Berger (Simon) 


​Directed by Stephanie Campion 
Picture
Dario Costa (Zeb), Emmanuelle Zagoria (Sal) and Eliot Berger (Simon)

(online reading)
Writing Doesn't Have to Be Lonely
Northampton, UK
​December 10, 2020

​Cast: Katie Cooper (Sal), Aaron Mackenzie (Zeb), 
Siôn Rhys (Simon)
Picture
Katie Cooper (Sal), SiƓn Rhys (Simon) and Aaron Mackenzie (Zeb)

Picture
(Reading) 
The Leytonstone Itch
Gerry's, Theatre Royal Stratford East

London
December 9, 2017


The Night Before Christmas scratch night
Aberdeen Performing Arts
​The Lemon Tree Lounge
Aberdeen, Scotland
​December 13, 2016

Playwright interview about Next Door Nativity on Stage Explorations