In keeping with its theme of plays that examine family dynamics, Ensemble Theatre will close out its 2018 season with “The Long Christmas Ride Home.”
“The Long Christmas Ride Home” is a one-act play by Paula Vogel, first performed in 2003. It is a drama about a road trip by two parents and their three young children to visit grandparents for the Christmas holiday and the emotional turmoil that they undergo.
If you go
› What: “A Long Christmas Ride Home”› Where: Barking Legs Theater, 1307 Dodds Ave.› When: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9-10 and 15-17, 2:30 p.m. Nov. 11› Admission: $20, $17 for students and ages 65 and up› For more information: 423-987-5141
The play is unique in its incorporation of bunraku, an ancient form of Japanese puppetry, to tell the story.
“Some parts very raw and troubling, some parts painfully relatable and the sprinkling in of some parts purposefully foreign, yet ominously connected, would be a decent attempt at explaining ‘The Long Christmas Ride Home,” Executive Director Garry Lee Posey describes.