Some Assembly Required December 20, 2008

Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2:00 pm A lighthearted but deeply moving portrayal of a dysfunctional family at Christmas.A family of grown children and ageing parents gathers reluctantly, even accidentally, at the family home on Christmas Eve. As the children hole up in the basement drinking eggnog, their parents retreat into their neuroses upstairs. Each character, and the family as a whole, is crippled by guilt over the failure to live up to expectations. The play shows how our obsession with making Christmas "the most wonderful time of the year" is precisely what makes it so unpleasant for so many people, and it continues to be popular precisely because it speaks to this common experience of the holidays.