A Rented Christmas by J. Lillian Vandervere is scheduled to open November 29 at Hayswood Theatre on Capital Avenue in Corydon, Indiana.  John Dale, a middle-aged bachelor and prominent businessman, has a challenging job for Anne Weston, proprietor of the local rent shop. He wants to rent a Christmas - not just a Christmas with a tree and carols, but complete with a a wife, family and all of the happiness for which he has been secretly longing. Weston hires a group of actors to play John’s “family” but suddenly must  “borrow” children from an orphanage when the actors come down with the measles.