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We Three Kings

95 mins: 2M, 2,NB, 1W, 1GN

It’s the night before Christmas, and three of the four King siblings—Mel, Bailey, and Caleb—are home for the holidays, playing drinking games to Bing Crosby’s dulcet tones while their parents are at midnight mass. But when they find a sorta-semi-maybe suicide note written by their eldest brother, James, who has Down's Syndrome—and a Star and The Angel crash into their living room—all 4 King siblings set off through a journey into the night. In this loose, chaotic, and often times uncomfortable re-imagining of the biblical tale of the Three Magi, the Kings ride camels in gas station parking lots, perform before constellations, and confront their own wound

Read the script at NPX

Awards

  • 2019 Semi-Finalist, Ashland Play Festival

  • 2019 Semi-Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival , Playwrights Foundation