[Nstc] "How to Survive Your Family st Christmas" opens Friday, December 6

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No Strings Theatre Company presents "How to Survive Your Family at  
Christmas," a charming comedy by William Missouri Downs and directed by  
NSTC's Artistic Director, Ceil Herman. The play opens Friday, December 6  
and runs through Sunday, December 22. There is a wonderful exhibit in  
thetheatregallery located in the lobby of the Black Box Theatre titled  
"It's All Relative." There will be a wine and cheese reception for the  
artists on Friday, December 6 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

It's Christmas, that wonderful time of year when families deck the halls,  
don their gay apparel, and pretend they don’t hate each other. College  
student Loretta (Debbie Jo Felix) hasn’t been home in two years mostly  
because she has nothing in common with her blue-collar parents (Nancy Clein  
Tafoya and Bobby Senecal). When she left to attend Harvard, she thought  
she’d never return, but then she fell in love with a cultivated Cambridge  
law student (C.S. Rede), and he wants to meet her parents.

The difference between Loretta’s law student and her parents couldn’t be  
more profound. He loves yachting, while her parents never let her near  
water - growing up Loretta’s mother told her chlorine caused skepticism. He  
reads Tennyson, while her parents read “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” - not  
the book, the Cliffs Notes. Joseluis Solorzano plays the understanding  
priest who helps the family to solve their problems and have a happy  
resolution.

Joshua Taulbee designed the set, Autumn Gieb is the costume designer and  
Peter Herman is the lighting designer. Bekah Taulbee is the Light, Sound,  
and Projections operator and Genno Tafoya is the Stage Manager.

"How to Survive Your Family At Christmas" is an entertaining crowd-pleasing  
comedy about family, love and the one thing we all need to survive the  
holidays, forgiveness.

Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., Sunday matinees on  
December 15 and 22 at 2:30 p.m. and there is a Thursday evening  
performances at 7:00 p.m. om December 19.

Playwright Bill Downs will be at the Thursday performance and there will be  
a talkback after the the performance that evening..With this play, the  
premiere production, the Black Box Theatre will have produced the most  
plays (5) by William Missouri Downs. The others are "Cockeyed," "Mad  
Gravity,"Seagulls in a Cherry Tree," and "Headsets."

For more information and ticket reservations call (575) 523-1223