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The story was written by Dara Harris and directed by Qitiqliq drama teacher Gord Billard.
The play revolves around a rich mother who takes her two spoiled kids to a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving Day to teach them how to be thankful for what they have.
This was the second year the play was performed in both English and Inuktitut.
Billard said while the student actors did a great job in both languages, the Inuktitut version was vastly improved over the previous year.
He said the students had help from Qitiqliq's Inuktitut teacher, Doreen Manik.
"Doreen was really proud of the kids and quite surprised by how much they've improved during the past year," said Billard.
"She saw a big improvement in their reading skills, and said a lot of kids who weren't really doing so well in their Inuktitut class benefitted from the production.
"The kids were required to read the script in syllabics, so it was a full-Inuktitut effort."
Four of the play's eight speaking roles were double-cast, with a total of 24 students playing major roles in the two productions.
This year's production also featured 18 students portraying the homeless.
Christmas play coming
That represented an increase of eight over the previous year, which allowed Billard to expose more kids to a live audience.
Billard said the students are already excited about starting rehearsals for the Christmas play. He said he would like to revisit the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol for this year's production.
"That was the first show I did here about four years ago.
"We managed to pull it off, but there was plenty of room for improvement in terms of the acting and the delivery of the lines.
"Because it was the first show, even though the kids had their lines and timing down, the nervousness and apprehension was evident.
"It would be interesting to see how the show would turn out now that we're all used to working together."
