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The Long Christmas Ride Home
The Long Christmas Ride Home
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Author: Paula Vogel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Format: Softcover # of Pages: 59 Pub. Date: 2004 ISBN-10: 0822220032 ISBN-13: 9780822220039 Cast Size: 3 women, 3 men, 3 puppets
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About the Play:
The Long Christmas Ride Home is a full-length drama by
Paula Vogel. Two parents take their three young children on a
road trip to visit their grandparents for the Christmas holiday. A
breathtaking work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of How I
Learned to Drive and Indecent, in which a single, sudden act of
violence shatters the lives of three siblings – and also unites
them.
The Long Christmas Ride Home combines exquisite
storytelling, music and puppetry to create a mesmerizing portrait of
the delicate and often painful bonds of family. Past, present and
future collide for a family of five on a snowy Christmas Eve when
their car spins out of control after a disastrous holiday dinner.
Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play is told
with actors and the centuries-old form of Japanese puppetry, Bunraku.
The Long Christmas Ride Home deftly navigates the lasting
impact of a moment in the lives of three siblings Stephen, Claire and
Rebecca that sets the rest of their lives in motion. This hauntingly
beautiful and poetic play proves that magic can be found in the
simplest breaths of life.
The Long Christmas Ride Home premiered in 2003 at Rhode
Island's Trinity Repertory Theatre winning the Elliot Norton Award
for Outstanding Production. Since
then the play had regional premieres at professional theatres across
the US and has been mounted by high schools, colleges, and community theatres.
Cast: 3 women, 3 men, 3 puppets
What people say:
"…[a] lovely and hauntingly
original family drama…a work that breathes so much life into the
theater." — Time Out New York
"Profoundly sad and shot
through with fiercely beautiful writing…with its adventurous blend
of puppets, live actors and Japanese theatrical elements, it’s also
Vogel’s most daring work — and one of her best." —
Variety
"…[a] delicate visual
feast…When theatergoers talk about a play as a religious
experience, they usually just mean that it had charismatic
performances or some exciting dance numbers … Paula Vogel is not
indulging in such hyperbole. She means her play to be a religious
experience in the way that a Christmas Mass might be for committed
Roman Catholics: an exalted communal ritual of redemption and
solace…It's enough to make even die-hard agnostics believe…in the
mystical powers of drama." — The New York Times
"…brutal and lovely…the
overall effect is magical." — New York Newsday
"Vogel remains…the best
playwright writing today." — Sun Chronicle
(Providence)
About the Playwright:
Paula Vogel is an American playwright and university
professor. One of the most widely produced and honoured playwrights
writing in the English language, her work has garnered numerous
awards and prizes including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Smith
Blackburn Award, New York Drama Critics Award, Obie Award, AT&T
New Plays Award, among many others, as well as fellowships from the
Pew Charitable Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, and the John
Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently the Eugene O'Neill
Professor and Chair of the Department of Playwriting at Yale
University.
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