Pontine Theatre Performs A NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS
Nov 29 - Dec 15, Fridays @7pm, Saturdays @3pm, Sundays @2pm Pontine Theatre
Featuring an original staging of William Dean Howell’s Christmas Everyday and Christmas in Our Town by Alice Van Leer Carrick, music by fiddler Ellen Carlson and a post-performance onstage party complete with homemade Christmas Cookies. Author, editor, playwright, poet and Kittery resident, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was a resident of Kittery, Maine. In his' story Christmas Every Day, a little girl is granted a wish by the Christmas Fairy. Her wish is to have Christmas everyday for a whole year. The first day of Christmas is perfect. The following day it is Christmas again, and every subsequent day as well. It wreaks havoc with the economy. All the woods are cut down for Christmas trees. People get so poor, buying presents, that everybody had to go to the poorhouse. Finally, the little girl begs the Christmas Fairy to undo the spell; she doesn't want it to be Christmas ever again. In her treasured reminiscence, Christmas in Our Town, Alice Van Leer Carrick tells of her treasured memories of a New England holiday in Hanover, New Hampshire in the mid-20th century. Her whimsical turn of phrase and witty allusions coupled with sheer sentiment goes straight to the heart