Name: Replacing Prancer
Start: 2024-12-14T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-14T20:00:00-05:00
Location: The Foundry West Stockbridge

Replacing Prancer

Built in 1994 as a glass blowing studio, the building’s name references its roots. Now the venue produces theater, music, comedy, spoken word, educational workshops and more, providing a safe place to create dangerous work. Work that counteracts the passive, the isolating, the distance between people. Come experience joyful creation, partake in brave exploration, meet the person sitting next to you, share about what you’re seeing, buy them a drink. Our goal is to present relevant performing and visual art that is accessible for diverse audiences; art that connects and inspires us, and incites us to leap across cultural boundaries. The Foundry is a holding tank for raw, funny, challenging, empowering work that changes the lens through which we view each other.

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The Foundry West Stockbridge

Dewey Hall and The Foundry are co-producing a staged reading of a new Christmas play by Tom Truss called Replacing Prancer. This collaboration is a series of milestones: the first time these two venues are combining forces to work together; the first full length play written by Great Barrington resident and performer Tom Truss; and its world premier. Not only are The Foundry and Dewey Hall providing residencies for the development of Truss’s play, they are also planning on fully producing Replacing Prancer in their 25-26 season. Playwright Tom Truss says, “It’s pretty extraordinary that these two venues are pooling their resources. And it’s inspiring that they are creating an incubator for local artists to make new work."Like many Christmases, Replacing Prancer is for all ages, and like many Christmases, it begins with a crisis. In this fast paced play each of Santa’s reindeer has a superpower that enables the sleigh to fly, and like the past few years something is off... but this time, it’s waaaay off! Christmas is just ten days away, the reindeer have returned from their mission to "sort things out” and Santa has a melt-down. The clock is ticking and they have an hour to figure out how to right their wrongs. And to complicate matters, some of the reindeer are secretly in love, others not so secretly, some are aging, and some are couch potatoes, but all are racing against time to set their Christmas tree straight before Mrs. Claus shows up and drops a bomb. As Blitzen says, “Santa is joy personified, and Mrs Claus is truth personified, and sometimes the truth is scary!”Running time is 75 minutes .—Tickets: $10 (Children 12 and under free)Seating/Bar: 6:30PM Show: 7:00PMThis event is indoors.—Parking is limited at the venue so please utilize the three public parking lots in Town. One is across from the Post Office, one is behind Berkshire Bank and the other is just off Main Street. They are clearly marked. Do not park at Trúc Orient Express Restaurant or the Post Office or you might receive a ticket.Visit Amici Berkshires for dinner before the show and with your ticket receive 10% off your meal.All sales are final – The Foundry is unable to make any returns or exchanges.

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