'SantaLand Diaries' Returns to the Gamm
By: Randy Rice
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre will stage a limited engagement of David Sedaris' The SantaLand Diaries & Season's Greetings. The pair of comic monologues by humorist David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello, runs for three weeks only, from December 4th – 23rd at The Gamm Theatre, 172 Exchange St., Pawtucket, RI.
Chris Byrnes directs Steve Kidd in The SantaLand Diaries, a retelling of Sedaris' real-life experiences as a young man who arrives in New York with dreams of being a writer for One Life to Live and instead lands a part-time job as a Macy's Christmas elf named Crumpet. In Season's Greetings, Wendy Overly directs Casey Seymour Kim in the role of Jocelyn Dunbar — a rigidly chipper housewife who takes pen to paper for her annual Christmas family newsletter. She recounts the joys, the jobs, and the unexpected surprises of the past year — including the arrival of her husband's illegitimate, gold-digging, Vietnamese daughter on the doorstep. "The themes of crass commercialism and happy holidays gone awry found in both plays never grow old and seemed to have hit a chord with audiences last holiday season", said Gamm Artistic Director Tony Estrella, in a recent press release.
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