“11-year-old Laura is sent to spend Xmas with her barely endurable, backwoods uncle and family in the Southwest. Laura pursues her (inevitable) Xmas joy, along the way encountering a requisite cast of oddities. The show works when it’s quick on its feet—highlights include a manic, Hispanic ostrich farmer, some great recurring prop bits and an improvised, mid-show audience therapy session with holiday therapist, Judy McClure. The show’s an easy holiday pleaser”
CHRISTMAS IN PARADISE . . . ARIZONA Farrell Walsh’s episodic comedy follows the yuletide adventures of an unflappable little girl who gets sent to Arizona to spend Christmas with her loser uncle and ends up helping a Mexican-American ostrich farmer reunite with his family. Walsh occasionally displays a flair for characterization: the excitable ostrich farmer (played with cartoonish precision by Brian Kash) and a slacker border-patrol vigilante are especially vivid. An improvised audience therapy session, held halfway through this Chemically Imbalanced Comedy show and led by a wittily passive-aggressive Angie McMahon, is the highlight. –Zac Thompson
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As with most indie theater productions, you never really know what to expect until you go and check it out. Seasonal Disorder was a riot! Clever from start to finish, we laughed the entire time. Definitely recommended for those who are into the indie theater scene and are looking for some serious non-politically correct laughs!