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American Christmas

adapted from Truman Capote's short stories
A Christmas Memory & One Christmas

adapted by and starring: Gregory Fuller (Narrator)

staging assistance by: Anita Aichinger, Xenia Bayer, Agnes Kitzler

 

Staging assistance: Anita Aichinger, Xenia Bayer, Agnes Kitzler

Props: Production Team

Stage Managers: Anita Aichinger, Xenia Bayer

Sound & Lighting: Anita Aichinger, Xenia Bayer

Costumes: Production Team

Set Design: Production Team

 

Facts

December 3-26, 2004

Wed-Fri (except Dec 24) - 7:30 p.m.

Sat & Sun - 2 p.m.

December 24 - 11 a.m.

 

Theater Die Neue Tribüne

Café Landtmann, right next to the Burgtheater

Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 4, A-1010 Vienna

 

About the play

Told from the perspective of a grown-up man who remembers his childhood experience of the Christmas holiday, American Christmas captures the Christmas spirit of the American South through the eyes of the little boy Truman Capote once used to be. In the first story, A Christmas Memory, the grown-up man joyfully remembers the Christmas traditions his elderly cousin introduced him to; in the second, One Christmas, the unhappy little boy has to spend one Christmas with his estranged father in New Orleans.

 

About the author

Born in New Orleans as the son of a salesman and a 16-year-old beauty queen, Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. He gained international fame with his 'non-fiction novel' In Cold Blood (1966), an account of a real-life crime in which an entire family was murdered by two sociopaths. The Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama area provided the setting for much of Capote's fiction.

After his parents' unhappy marriage had ended in divorce when he was four, little Truman was brought up by relatives in Alabama. One of these relatives became the model for the loving, elderly spinster in several of Capote's novels, stories, and plays. "Her face is remarkable - not unlike Lincoln's, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind," Capote describes his distant relative Sook, Nanny Rumbley Faulk, in A Christmas Memory (1966). Sook was sixty-something, "small and sprightly, like a bantam hen..."

When his mother married again, this time a well-to-do businessman, Capote moved to New York and adopted his stepfather's surname.

 

Teachers

Teacher Material for all vienna theatre project productions is available in PDF format to download from this website. Please visit our Education section to find the required documents which are available free of charge.The material available includes background information about the author, the play, main themes, characters, reading suggestions, possible teaching objectives, dialogues for discussion, assignments and vocabulary (English-German).

 

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