Christmas Play

Christmas is nearing, and the play being rehearsed for the guests of a homeless shelter is looming as a disaster. Plaguing the director are problems she feels ill-equipped to handle: the demanding actress playing Mary is a Hollywood diva sentenced to community service; the actor playing Gabriel is nowhere to be found; and an old man at the shelter who wants to play a part harbors a secret and painful connection to the director’s past. Add to this the stolen decorations and the lack of funds for the Christmas dinner, and our struggling director feels it will take a miracle to make it all happen. Little does she know that the mysterious visitor standing in the wings may bring just that. During the course of the script, there are four sequences where they present the Biblical Christmas story scenes to their guests. This is a play-within-a-play.