Dates: 11/25/2022 - 12/4/2022
📍 Theatre: Pontine Theatre
Pontine Theatre
1 Plains Avenue, Portsmouth NH
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Phone: 603-436-6660
Pontine Theatre presents its two-person staging of Donald Hall's story, Christmas Snow, Nov 25 to Dec 4. Performances are scheduled for Fridays @7pm, Saturdays @3pm and Sundays @2pm. Tickets are $29 and may be purchased online -- www.pontine.org -- Pontine's 1845 Plains Schoolhouse theatre is located at 1 Plains Avenue, Portsmouth NH. Free parking is available onsite.
An original staging of Donald Hall’s Christmas Snow, published in The New Yorker Magazine in December 1964. In the story, Hall recounts a holiday trip to Eagle Pond Farm, his grandfather’s home in Wilmot New Hampshire in 1938, when he was ten years old. This memoir blends reminiscences, anecdotes and vignettes that capture continuity of family and the quiet delights of rural life. Supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Underwritten by Piscataqua Savings Bank. with Special thanks to The Estate of Donald Hall.
Pontine Theatre pays tribute to New Hampshire’s beloved poet, Donald Hall, with an original two-actor staging of his story, Christmas Snow, which first appeared in The New Yorker in December 1964. Hall writes of his 1938 holiday trip to Eagle Pond Farm, his grandparents’ home in Wilmot, NH, when he was ten years old.
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