CTC proudly presents our next production…
The Holidays are a Drag
—In collaboration with Drag Show CPH
A festive family reunion. A few unexpected guests. Plenty of baggage.
What’s on the menu?
In a lightly snow-covered town, Ashley, who is a traditional house wife with a secret, welcomes her beloved entrepreneurial son, Hugh Dick, and his partner, Gabriel, into her extravagantly decorated home for the holidays. What’s Ashley’s secret? She is inviting Harley—Hugh Dick’s distant parent and Ashley’s complicated situationship— to dinner in the hopes of mending their family and being in an official relationship causing an eruption of emotions. Luckily Hugh Dick’s grandmother, GG, helps bring comic relief, but it’s short lived as tensions clash once again as past family trauma gets dragged up between GG and Harley.
Adding gasoline to the fire, Ashley has invited Gabriel’s long-lost uncle, Tonton Claude Hippocampe, to the evening festivities expecting a joyful reunion but ends up being awkward and deeply emotional, adding another helping of uncertainty to an already delicate reunion.
As the evening unfolds, twinkling lights and festive decorations do little to disguise old grievances, future proposals, shared family PTSD, and dramatic breakups. Secrets surface, tensions erupt and everyone must confront the choices that brought them to the table.
Some conflicts find resolution, while others will have to wait for another holiday.
Come for the holiday cheer. Stay for the family drama.
Pull up a chair for a camp, chaotic and heartfelt drag-theatre experience where tensions simmer hotter than the roast. Blending drag performance, dramatic monologues and musical numbers, The Holidays Are a Drag serves up the love, frustration and beautifully messy relationships that make going home for the holidays an event of its own.
Created collaboratively by the cast, this original production celebrates chosen and biological families—and the humour and tenderness of finding where you belong.
Join us for a holiday gathering you won’t have to explain to your own family.
Cast
Ashley played by Felipe Nasty
Harley Knight played by Cecil Smokes
Hugh Dick played by Will Sin
Gabriel played by Criter Us
Tonton Claude Hippocampe played by James Hornykunt
GG played by Jason
Make a little room for holiday drama
Whether you’re celebrating with friends, chosen family or relatives who could inspire a show of their own, join us for an evening of drag, music and festive dysfunction.