Shadowlands Stages in Ellenville NY will
present a special online presentation of a reading of a new play – CHRISTMAS EVE 1953 - premiering Saturday, December 19th at 8pm and available for viewing
through Tuesday, December 22nd.
CHRISTMAS EVE 1953 (coincidentally my first
Christmas Eve), a story by Tom Hanks that was included in his book “Uncommon
Type: Some Stories”, “tells the story of Virgil Buell and his wife Delores,
who every year on Christmas Eve get the house ready for a celebratory Christmas
morning with their kids. And every Christmas Eve, right at midnight, Virgil
gets a long-distance phone call from his old Army buddy, Bud. Bud’s annual
call, from somewhere in the world, sends Virgil careening back through the
tunnel of memory to the shells and shrapnel of their shared, explosive past. A
Yuletide fable of love, loss, redemption and hope.”
The story was adapted for the stage by James
Glossman and is part of a trio of stories Glossman has adapted from the book.
This will be the first time it is heard.
It stars David Strathairn, Sharon Washington, Jay O. Sanders, Maryann
Plunkett and Leyu Girma.
You can view this performance by donating to
Shadowland Stages. Go here to donate.
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