Meet Margot, a 30-something Tejana who works at a beloved whata-sized Texas burger joint. The Christmas Eve overnight shift is her personal tradition – even if that means spending the holiday dealing with grumpy drive-thru customers and an equally grumpy robotic Santa. But when her dead best friend Jackie Marley drops by to warn her of impending late-night visits by spirits, Margot has no choice but to roll with the punches and confront the very Scrooge she’s become. It’s a Christmas Eve like none other in this brand-new holiday show filled with humor and heart set in H-town by Texan playwright Isaac Gómez.
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A Note from the Playwright:
This is a play about people who work on or around Christmas who find magic in the mundane, comedy in the tragedy, and light in the dark. It’s a play about a woman who chooses to be lonely even though she isn’t alone, and her journey to discovering why that is and what she's avoiding.
This is a play about Texas, and family-owned fast-food joints, and Christmas, and so many collisions of life, love, heartbreak, joy, messiness, and everything the crevices of the human existence can’t quite contain. It’s at once hilarious as it is scary as it is sad and everything in between. Lean into the moments of tone shifts. The audience will hunger for them.
Oh, and the possessions in this play are less like The Exorcist and more like the Scary Movie franchise. Let it be scary until it’s funny as hell. Push against sentimentality until it’s earned.