‘The Christmas Bench’

Presented by Readers Theatre Plus

Where: Guy Cole Convention Center, Carrie Blake Park, 202 N. Blake Ave.

When: 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Nov. 6-7, 13-14; 2:30 p.m. Sunday Nov. 8, 15

Tickets: $10 in advance at the Purple Haze Lavender Store and Sequim Tea & Spice; Odyssey Books in Port Angeles. Tickets are $12 at the door. ADA-compliant facility. All-ages. Proceeds benefit the Sequim City Band which performs 20-30 minutes before each show.

Halloween is over, Thanksgiving is nearing closer and the Christmas shopping season unfolds around two men in Reader Theatre Plus’ rendition of “The Christmas Bench” by Larry Larson and Eddie Levi Horton.

Janice Parks directs six performances beginning at 7 p.m. Nov. 6 for two weeks at the Guy Cole Convention Center in Carrie Blake Park, 202 N. Blake Ave.

“The Christmas Bench” stars Ken Winters as Jeff and Michael Aldrich as Sam, two men waiting for their wives on a mall bench. They encounter an array of characters performed by Ric Munhall, Barbara Drennan, Teresa Pierce and Jeff Leach as the Voice of the Mall.

The mall players present a five-minute version of “A Christmas Carol,” a homeless man tells a bizarre tale and sings “O Holy Night,” a Jewish woman who is a greeter at the department store recites a portion of “A Child’s Chanukka in Pittsburgh,” and one of the men turns out to be not quite who he appears to be.

“It’s light-hearted and a lot of fun,” production manager Sue Valnes said. “It addresses a lot of issues people may have with Christmas and Hanukah. It’s made for believers and non-believers.”

All proceeds from “The Christmas Bench” benefit the Sequim City Band which will open each performance with a 20-30 minute show of its own.