Center Stage at Southampton Arts Center will present the Long Island premiere staged readings of Truman Capote’s holiday short story collection: One Christmas and A Christmas Memory at the Southampton Arts Center, located at 25 Jobs Lane, from November 28 to November 30, Friday at 7:00 PM, Saturday at 2:00 PM and 7 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM.
Produced through special arrangements with and permission granted by The Truman Capote Literary Trust, Center Stage will bring to life the bittersweet, heartwarming and thought-provoking prose written by one of the 20th Century’s greatest and most celebrated American writers, Truman Capote.
Set during The Great Depression of the early 1930s, the tales are based largely upon Capote’s youth in rural Alabama and focus on young Buddy and his lovingly eccentric cousin, Sook. Together, through two Christmases, Buddy and Sook learn much about honesty, love, loss and enduring friendship.
In One Christmas, young Buddy spends the holiday away from his Alabama family and in New Orleans with his rarely seen father. A Christmas Memory is Capote’s love letter to his elderly cousin, Sook, who raised him and taught him much about kindness, sharing and forever.
The productions are sponsored in part by Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, LMS Design, SHA and the Yaffa Foundation. Michael Disher directs.
The shows struck a deep chord when first unveiled in Southampton last year — so much so, that audiences yearned for just one more glimpse into the artistry of Capote’s holiday prose.
