2004-2005 Season: Sugar Plum Fairy
Multi-talented actor/author/commentator Sandra Tsing Loh, of NPR’s “The Loh Life” and the Rep hit Aliens in America fame, takes a trip down memory lane to recall a 1970s San Fernando Valley childhood rife with dashed dreams, sibling rivalry, adolescent fantasies and general mayhem during that tumultuous seasonal ritual: “The Holidays.”
As Loh alternates between narrator of her own story and the embodiment of the frustrated 12-year-old she once was, we see her morph from dancing Christmas tree to mature woman, from aspiring ballerina in a school Nutcracker to reconciled grown-up mother.
Lauded by critics as a one-woman theatrical tour de force, Loh’s irreverent saga playfully pokes fun at the manic excesses and stresses of this “most wonderful time of the year.”