Richard Kendrick's world has turned upside down. His wife, Julie, was killed in an automobile accident at Thanksgiving, leaving Richard with their five teenage children.

Richard and the children find it impossible to talk about their mother, resulting in strained family relations at a time when the children and the father need each other more than ever. And now it's Christmas...and they discover that Julie bought presents for all of them before she died...

O. B. Rozell's plays portray today's families as they are confronted by today's crises. His ability to penetrate to the heart of the crisis and to understand the deep emotions of those affected by it has placed his work among the most significant and most poignant short plays of the modern theatre.

Sharing is an impressive contest play for all groups and is easy to stage. It is also ideal for a program of one-act plays, especially in conjunction with Rozell's Searching, Of Winners, Losers, and Games, and/or The Freeway. And of course, Sharing is a meaningful Christmas play, although it is equally appropriate for any time of the year.

One act; Set, living/dining room of the Kendrick home; Time, the present.

Another Rozell play: Nathan the Nervous

See also: Plays About Family Relationships, Plays About Death and War