The Long Christmas Ride Home

Past and present collide on a snowy Christmas Eve for a troubled family of five, during a Christmas car-ride to their grandparent’s house. Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play explores what happens to these siblings as they grow older but don’t forget. Written by long-time Curious supporter and Pulitzer Prize Winning author of How I Learned to Drive and The Mineola Twins, The Long Christmas Ride Home is Paula Vogel’s latter-day answer to Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, with its archetypal small-town lives drawn on a cosmic canvas. And it’s those echoes of eternity, and the ravishingly stylized ways in which they are represented, that turns this play into a shiver-making Holiday experience, proving that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of Life. This groundbreaking work fuses Bunraku-influenced puppets, Japanese Noh performance styles, and dance into an eclectic and magical evening of theatre.