CAPE MAY — July 13, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. Cape May Stage celebrates Christmas in July on the Second Stage with New York actress Ginna Hoben in The Twelve Dates of Christmas! Currently starring this summer as Rosalind in Ken Ludwig’s hilarious comedy Moon Over Buffalo, Hoben writes and stars as Mary in this delicious one-woman show about how much the holidays suck after your heart’s been crushed.
In this staged reading, Hoben takes audiences on a whirlwind adventure of the heart after she sees her fiancé making out with his co-worker on national TV at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. After she dumps him and the ring, she then spends the next year being set up, hooked up, strung up, and fed up as she navigates her life “alone” as a New York actor in her thirties. Hailed by critics as “witty, funny…light-hearted and touching,” The Twelve Dates of Christmas is a refreshingly candid and real look at navigating the emotional highs and lows of the holiday season.
Ginna Hoben is an actor/writer currently residing in Astoria, NY. This season, she will be honored with a residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat in Florida where she’ll be working on three new plays and a screenplay. She spent much of 2012 performing at CATCO in her hometown, Columbus Ohio (Next Fall, The 39 Steps, and The Twelve Dates of Christmas.) Before that, Ginna spent four years acting at The American Shakespeare Center. Among the nineteen plays she performed there was the premiere of The Twelve Dates of Christmas. Other produced plays include the solo show Pierced!, the full-length play The Wind-chill Factor, and the ten minute play Telephone, published in the collection 30 Ten-Minute Plays for 4, 5, and 6 Actors.
The Twelve Dates of Christmas is part of Cape May Stage’s acclaimed Second Stage Series. This staged reading performance will take place June 13 at 12 p.m. at the Robert Shackleton Playhouse on the corner of Bank and Lafayette Streets in downtown Cape May. Tickets are pay what you wish. Call (609) 770-8311 for information and reservations or visit the theatre’s website at www.capemaystage.org.
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