After a global catastrophe wipes out virtually all human knowledge, can humankind rediscover the true meaning of Christmas?”
One day while I was thinking about how hard it would be to explain mistletoe to people not familiar with Christmas, I accidentally made contact with Effex Duesey, an interdimensional consciousness from the future, who told me the story of how Christmas did indeed once need be rescued from obscurity, after being almost entirely forgotten.
Can these aftertold (as opposed to foretold) dytopian humans get that long lost holiday of Christmas to come out right? Do the botched details matter, or is it the spirit of Christmas that counts?
*minimum 2 youth and 2 teen actors needed.
SYNOPSIS:
Once upon a time, a long time ahead...
After a future global catastrophe in an alternate quantum dimension, the humans who’ve managed to survive have forgotten all things related to their old culture and heritage -- related to our present quantum dimension that is -- including Christmas!
The worst of a “Great Hibernation” is over, and humans have begun to emerge, including one small circle of people known as Copians, along with a group of feral humans. Also present is a mysterious renegade known as “The Antediluvian”, whom the Copians hate for ignoring their laws and for hoarding foodstuffs and medicines in his stronghold.
As the story begins, Dajee has learned about some of the practices of what used to be known as “civilization,” which he wants to revive! Unfortunately, because of the circle’s strict rules limiting anything that would waste resources or human energies, he is finding this to be difficult.
Whardin, the circle’s Chief Mother, has even thrown him in a cage for his most recent attempts, from where he enlists the help of his daughter, Ainjee, to implement his latest scheme: a Christmas celebration!
Against the Chief Mother’s wishes, most all in the circle secretly go along with this plan, preparing a Christmas Eve pageant, which some believe may awaken the Christmas God and bring forth the Santa Claus as well as any number of Christmas miracles! Alas, it is not to be, as their plans to distract Whardin fail, and she discovers their plot right before the Xmas Eve pageant is to begin.
In a confusion of Copians running scared for fear of Whardin’s reprisal, Ainjee’s snow machine is knocked over and goes berserk. The next day, Christmas day, Whardin’s son Kemdin agrees to find and disable the renegade machine, as Ainjee is now in the cage with Dajee.
While trying to neutralize the machine, Kemdin is injured and enters a coma. No one in the circle can heal him, and so it falls on Ainjee to explore the last avenue anyone can think of: she must somehow enter the Antedilluvian’s stronghold and find a way to enlist his help ...