Abstract
Abstract Thornton Wilder’s 1931 one-act play The Long Christmas Dinner presents several challenges in staging. This article records the experiences of a student production— from early rehearsal through performance—mounted at the University of South Carolina Sumter. The production also included Wilder’s other 1931 one-act The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden. The article describes how the production handled the allegorical portals of birth and death in The Long Christmas Dinner, and how the production endeavored to communicate the play’s compression of 150 years of family dinners into a thirty-minute performance. It describes the production’s innovative techniques which replicated the play’s sound effects and stage movement.
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