I am thrilled to share this announcement for Laura Thoma’s new Christmas play, Miss Margaret’s Barton Cottage Christmas Surprise. It’s a cozy, sapphic holiday dramedy.

Synopsis:

Eight years after Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, the adventurous Margaret Dashwood returns home to surprise her family for the holidays. The surprise is hers when her former love interest, Lavinia, arrives at the cottage. As family frivolity descends into jealousy and betrayal, Margaret is left to face her true feelings and decide what she’s willing to do to save Christmas. Miss Margaret’s Barton Cottage Christmas Surprise is a festive holiday romp complete with mistaken identity, singing, dancing, and lots of seasonal cheer. 

You do not have to know the world of Jane Austen to enjoy this Christmas play.

Where/When

At Drama Works Theatre in Old Saybrook, Connecticut
323 Boston Post Rd, Old Saybrook, CT 06475

Performance dates:
🎄 Friday 12/13, 7:30 pm
🎄 Saturday 12/14, 7:30 pm
🎄 Sunday 12/15, 3:00 pm <–matinee
🎄 Friday 12/20, 7:30 pm
🎄 Saturday 12/21, 7:30pm

Tickets

Get your Tickets Here!

About Laura Thoma

From her website:

Laura Thoma (she/her) is a trauma-informed, award winning playwright and short film writer born under a magnolia tree in Tidewater, Virginia. The first half of her career as a dancer and choreographer ended abruptly due to injury. She is thrilled to have found her way back to her sacred space through writing. 

Laura is an alum of the Kennedy Center Playwrights Intensive, the National Playwrights’ Symposium, Pawling Theatre Exchange Playwrights Residency, The Desert Playwrights Retreat, and THE OUTRAGE: A Queer Writers’ Residency. She is a Dramatist Guild Institute of Dramatic Writing graduate and cofounder of Shoreline Playwrights, a partnership that develops new work.

Her work is heavily influenced by her background in dance and choreography. Laura loves to play with form, patterns, rhythm, and flow while creating and exploring women-centric stories of queerness, aging, intergenerational connectedness, mental health, and hope. She aspires to write stories that are sacred mirrors to others who do not feel seen.

Laura has developed her work with various theaters and organizations, including The Bechdel Group, Legacy Theatre, Cape May Stage, Odyssey Theatre, Chestnut Street Playhouse, Marist College, Drama Works Theatre Company, GreenStage Guilford Live Arts, and the North American Cultural Laboratory.

When she’s not writing plays, books, or screenplays, Laura can be found driving backroads and exploring old two-lane highways with her bookish wife, Chris [that’s me!], and their dog, Buddy Fitzwilliam.

Below is a QR code to purchase tickets for this exciting new Christmas play.

To learn more about Laura, visit her website or connect with her on Instagram.