It’s Christmas Eve, and Ed has gathered his three adult sons to celebrate with matching pajamas, trash-talking, and Chinese takeout. But when a question they can’t answer interrupts their holiday cheer, they are forced to confront their own identities. Obie Award-winning playwright Young Jean Lee takes a hilariously ruthless look at the classic American father-son drama. This is one white Christmas like you've never seen before.
The re-written version of the play seems to have extended and pumped up the fun and games from the original version that played downtown at the Public under the playwright's own direction. But who would begrudge this super cast a few extra laughs? Charles plays an inspired game of 'Privilege' and Hammer is especially fetching rubbing his sore nipples after one of these bro-on-bro matches.
Young Jean Lee's delicate balance of a play, directed by Anna D. Shapiro with a more sensitive understanding of character than pace, brings together three adult brothers and their widowed dad over a Christmas holiday that will see laughter and tears.
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