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The Long Christmas Ride Home |
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Go for Paula Vogel's The Long Christmas Ride Home with Christmas Carnivals offering information on The Long Christmas Ride Home.
The play receives its New York premiere under the direction of Mark Brokaw,
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reuniting Vogel and Brokaw for the first time since the 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive.
The play - which also features puppets designed by Basil Twist - concerns what happens when a suburban family's car whirls out of control after a catastrophic Christmas dinner, crash the three siblings into the future where they tackle the legacies of their childhood.
When November comes and people begin thinking about the looming holidays, good cheer is let loose as is anxiety. Indeed, the latter is the more prevalent condition in this post-Freudian age when 12-step meetings are jammed with men and women questioning loudly and painfully whether they will join family get-togethers or whether, for sanity's sake, they'll avoid them like the plague. In structuring this intermission- less, 90-minute drama, Vogel has also drawn from other influences like Thornton Wilder, whose one-act plays The Long Christmas Dinner and The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden Vogel has, conflated. Vogel actually turns to Japanese Bunraku puppetry for the most sophisticated convention. This playwright recoils at the idea of writing plays that are comparable in their composition; she wants each play to be different in texture from those that have preceded it. To know more on The Long Christmas Ride Home, surf Christmas Carnivals
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