And a happy L. Ron Hubbbard-mas to you, gentle reader. For, in playwright/composer Kyle Jarrow's scathing satire of the Scientology movement, 'tis the season for E-meters, engrams, and Thetans.

Jarrow's slyly ironic idea of sending up the tenets of Scientology by staging them as a conventional Christmas pageant is all the more ferocious when you consider that most of the presentation is handled with nary a wink of editorialization. The text contains only facts from the commonly available Scientology texts, and you are left to make your own judgments about the religion's philosophy. Turn one direction, and the show seems like a bona fide Christmas show in honor of Scientology. Turn the other way, and it's a relentless shredding of many of Scientology's ideas.

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