Tag: Jeffrey Moore
This Year’s Tacky, Uproarious Trailer Park Christmas Is Common Ground’s Swan Song
Common Ground Theatre co-founder Rachel Klem has appropriately decided to stage, for the eighth year, her original one-act A Trailer Park Christmas, making it the last production before the 13-year-old theater’s imminent closing later this month. With the decades-long traditional winter productions of Raleigh Little Theatre’s Cinderella and Theatre in the Park’s A Christmas Carol,… Read More ›
CGT’s Multimedia Trailer Park Christmas Features Song, Dance, Karaoke … and Snacks
Written by Rachel Klem and Jeffrey Moore and directed by Klem, A Trailer Park Christmas is a multimedia show. Nine actors perform live onstage, playing 20 characters. Over half of them, accompanied by another 12 characters, also appear in videos that play on the big screen TV. There’s song, there’s dance, there’s karaoke, and there… Read More ›
“A Trailer Park Christmas” Is (Thankfully) Not Your Standard Holiday Fare
During the holiday season, most theaters feature somewhat saccharine, family friendly tales about Santas and Scrooges, but Common Ground, for the past few years, has offered up a different kind of Christmas tradition—a hilarious, heavy-on-audience-participation, third-wall-breaking, trashy little Christmas tale dubbed “A Trailer Park Christmas.” Written by Rachel Klem, who also serves as director, and… Read More ›
The Fifth Edition of Jeffrey Moore and Rachel Klem’s Zany “Trailer Park Christmas” Opens on Dec. 13th
Common Ground Theatre will present its fifth annual production of filmmaker Jeffrey Moore and Common Ground Theatre owner and manager Rachel Klem’s zany Southern-fried comedy, “A Trailer Park Christmas,” on Dec. 13-16 and 20-23 in Durham, NC. In the best “Hee-Haw” style, this interactive multimedia holiday extravaganza is set in the festively decorated doublewide trailer of Dale and Loraine Dodson (Jeff Alguire and Rachel Klem) in Whispering Pines Trailer Park in West Durham.
“A Trailer Park Christmas” Is a Zany Southern-Fried Comedy, Written by Jeffrey Moore and Rachel Klem
Forget about saccharine, sentimental stories of Christmas Eve redemption, the Dodson/Hussy family is partying like its 1999, in a seedy trailer park about to be leveled by a nasty tornado. And if the twister doesn’t get them, their greedy landlords will be there in the morning with a bulldozer.