Amazon. Books on Tape. Short cuts to keep their lives focused on the play Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some) help community theater actors such as Melissa Hennig and Christopher Noonan through a snappy play that involves 30 roles, but only has six actors. Hennig and Noonan are onstage nearly every minute being someone new.

Noonan gives himself memory clicks for his characters via his costumes: “Let’s see, I have to wear a wig in this one. I’m a lady on fire in another. I’m Rudolph here; I’m the Grinch there …” He makes an hourlong commute from Estero every day, with audiobook entertainment, because he enjoys the play so much.

Hennig runs through 10 roles from a spectral Ghost of Christmas Past to a holiday game show host to a fruitcake peddler. But this is her specialty; she’s played as many as 15 roles an evening: “I’ve been doing short plays for years, so you might do two or three characters at one time in those.” Still, shopping for Christmas had to go online this year, she admitted.

Both are obviously having fun with a comedy that shows what happens when an acting troupe decides to give every holiday tale its due instead another year of Dickens. Every Christmas Story Ever Told continues at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays, 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 22 at Arts Center Theatre, Marco Town Center, 1089 Collier Blvd., Marco Island. $30. marcoislandart. org or 239.784.1186