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The Long Christmas Ride Home
by Paula Vogel
Past and present collide on a snowy Christmas Eve for a troubled family of five. Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play proves that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of life. Combining the elements of Noh theatre and Bunraku puppetry with contemporary Western sensibilities, Vogel's Ride is a mesmerizing homage to the works of Thornton Wilder, a moving and memorable study of a family careening near the edge of oblivion.
"The Long Christmas Ride Home is as pure as mathematics in its translation of the prosaic into the abstract. At its most touching, the play collapses time and space into moments of disarming, and affecting, beauty.”
The New York Times
"Brilliant . . . even more ambitious than Vogel's How I Learned to Drive . . . it covers more ground and is bolder in its storytelling. Vogel's language is at its most poetic, eloquent and elegiac. In fact, its vivid imagery rivals the prose style of any great American short story writer."
New Haven Register
"One of the most absorbing evenings of theatre to come along in some time."
Variety
Paula Vogel's plays include The Baltimore Waltz, Mineola Twins, Hot 'n' Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, among others.
Ms. Vogel also teaches at Brown University in the MFA playwriting program.
