NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release – April 24, 2015

The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden & The Long Christmas Dinner

An Evening of One-Act Plays by Thornton Wilder 

May 7-10 & May 13-16 

Garden City, NY – Nassau Community College will present two one-act works by acclaimed American playwright Thornton Wilder May 7 through 10 and 13 through 16 at the Little Theatre.

Wilder was the most experimental of our great playwrights. The first work, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, clearly anticipates his best-known work, Our Town. The journey of the title refers to that of a family whose members travel to visit their daughter/sister. It's a trip punctuated by talk, laughter and memories, both happy and painful.

The Long Christmas Dinner is even more unique in its dramatic devices. The action of the play traverses 90 years of growth and change in the Bayard home and America over the course of a succession of Christmas dinners. The play has a tender, human quality that is both forceful and appealing.

Both plays are at the same time uniquely American in sensibility and universal in their humanity.

Performances of The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden and The Long Christmas Dinner will be: May 7-9 and 13-15 at 8:00 p.m.; May 10 at 3:00 p.m.; and May 16 at 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $9.00 per person, discounted to $7.00 for those under 18 and 55 and over. Groups of 15 or more will be charged $5.00 per person. Free rush tickets will be available beginning one hour before each performance for college students with valid spring 2015 ID. To order tickets, call the box office at 516.572.7676 Monday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Media Contact: Alicia Steger 516.572.9634 alicia.steger@ncc.edu ncc.edu/newsreleases

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