The Santaland Diaries: Photos
Photos of Kraig Swartz as Crumpet in The Santaland Diaries at The New Repertory Theatre. Photos by Christopher McKenzie. Click on each photo to see a larger image.
Nick invited me to see the late night (10pm/second show) performance of David Sedaris’ one act play The Santaland Diaries at the New Repertory Theatre in (my current town of) Watertown. I am sometimes reluctant to go see plays+theater+etc; but then I realized, oh, wait, this is David Sedaris — it will be funny and hey, it is only 70 minutes. Nick’s theater friend Kraig Swartz stars as Crumpet, a sarcastic, hilarious Macy’s Elf. The play is based on Sedaris’ essay about his adventures as that very Macy’s Elf many years ago. According to Wikipedia, he first read the essay on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition on December 23, 1992.
Not only was Kraig’s performance awesome; but it turns out we have a mutual acquintance in St. Louis. When I tweeted a few minutes before the show that I was about to see the play, Brad Graham, (@thebrad on Twitter), sent a tweet my way.
And yeah, I’m a geek. I had to show Kraig the tweet after the performance and then I sent a reply back over to Brad.
I definitely recommend catching a performance of The Santaland Diaries while it’s still at The New Repertory Theatre until January 4th. Some performances are sold out so you’ll want to try to buy tickets soon. Cheers to Nick for convincing me to head out for something that wasn’t live music!