The Long Christmas Ride Home: A Puppet Play With Actors

by Paula Vogel

Overview

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 proves that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822220039
Publisher:	Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/28/2004
Pages:	59
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.20(d)

Editorial Reviews

...brutal and lovely...the overall effect is magical.

NY Newsday

...[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.

NY Times

Vogel remains...the best playwright writing today.

Sun Chronicle (Providence)

...[a] lovely and hauntingly original family drama...a work that breathes so much life into the theater.

Time Out