Golden, CO 80401
By Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams
Directed by Robert Kramer
November 13 - December 20, 2015
It's Christmas time in Tuna, Texas where Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on the various Yuletide activities. While Bertha Bumiller tries to hold her family together, Joe Bob Lipsey struggles to mount his disaster prone production of “A Christmas Carol,” and a mysterious Christmas Phantom threatens to throw the town's annual Christmas Yard Display Contest (won 14 times in a row by Vera Carp) into turmoil.
The eclectic band of citizens that make up this town are portrayed by only two performers,Christian Mast and Seth Maisel, making this satire on life in rural America even more delightful as they depict all of the inhabitants of Tuna -- men, women, children and animals.
"Greater Tuna" began as a simple party skit based on a political cartoon more than 25 years ago in Austin, Texas. Talented creators Joe Sears, Jaston Williams and Ed Howard were the imaginative authors that parlayed the sketch into a critically acclaimed production which has entertained audiences across the country ever since. “A Tuna Christmas” is the second in a series of comedic plays (preceded by Greater Tuna and followed by Red, White and Tuna and Tuna Does Vegas), each set the fictional town of Tuna, Texas.
