Welcome!

Welcome to the blogspot site for the production of Paula Vogel's The Long Christmas Ride Home at Yale University, October 23-25, directed by Gary Jaffe '10 and produced by Lauren Bremen '10. Here, you will find information for auditions -- the characters in the play, monologues, etc. to prepare, and updates.

"The Long Christmas Ride Home" is a synthesis of intimate American family drama and Japanese Bunraku and Noh theater. The play concerns the shattering of a family one Christmas Eve, and how the three children, facing despair as adults, find each other and salvation across any boundary, even that of life and death (or puppet and actor!). Magic -- theatrical, spiritual, emotional -- fills the play; it is raucously funny, piercingly dramatic and wonderfully moving.

Here's an introduction (the picture!) to Claire, Stephen and Rebecca, our production's child puppets. All are works in progress, needing, among other things, hair, hands, new clothes and, oh yes, faces. The puppets were made by the Jaffe Family Summer Improvisational Puppet Workshop in Austin TX, then traveled all the way here in a Honda CR-V -- a long August ride home indeed!


Expect more information soon.