The Long Christmas Ride Home - A Puppet Play with Actors - ACTING EDITION

Past, present and future collide on a snowy Christmas Eve for a troubled family of five. Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of How I Learned to Drive proves that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of life

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" ~ NY Times