THEATRE: Make time for Christmas Stopping
By Margot Thomas
IF YOU ARE an early Christmas shopper add tickets for the Theatre Guild of Ancon (TGA) seasonal offering Christmas Stopping, to your list of must buys.
It’s the 7th play of the season, topping off an yet another successful year of sold out performances in the TGA’s 66th year of entertaining English speaking audiences.
The Production will run with a double cast: a first for the Guild.
The decision was made following the arrival of a swarm of talented actors for the auditions.
The play has an intriguing premise: What could be better for Christmas than doing away with it?
Stopping Christmas is just what Grant, a middle aged psychiatrist, sets out to do.
No overspending, no gifts, no trying to maintain the myth of Santa for your 28 year old daughter, no Christmas Blues -and all those Christmas bells.
But his family thinks he’s an old Scrooge, and when elves and Santa’s from the mall hurl protests through his window his wife packs her bags. Grant is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas future with horror stories of endless productions of A Christmas Carol and a rap about Santa that shakes him to the core. Should he go back to Christmas or hold onto his crusade? No Christmas = no family? Is Christmas Stopping really a good idea?
Timings
The show runs from Nov. 17-19, 25-26 and Dec. 1-3 Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 pm. Matinees Nov. 26 and Dec. 3 at 4:00 pm
