Jay Stratton
Jay is the co-adapter and premier director of the University of Texas at El Paso’s acclaimed production of A Christmas Carol en la Frontera. Jay is also the author Keeping Distance – an irreverent comedy about covid isolation, and the adapter of numerous other pieces including a recent reimagined As You Like It, and UTEP’s Halloween productions of Bloody Shakespeare! and Shakespeare’s Asylum.
A Christmas Carol en La Frontera
Christmas by Adriana Domínguez Jay Stratton
64 pages
7 m, 5 w, 5 flexible, and kids (doubling possible)
A timeless masterpiece told in the spirit of La Frontera! This holiday ghost story is filled with thrills and chills to delight young and old alike. But more than a yuletide spectacle, this play is a tale of family, solitude, and redemption. By transplanting the familiar Dickens’ classic from Victorian England to the US/Mexican border, the story finds new life and cultural relevance. Though easily understood by English-speaking audiences, the play has a generous helping of español to add authenticity to the borderland story.