‘A Hunting Shack Christmas’ comes to Mantorville

Mantorville Theatre Company’s holiday show is “A Hunting Shack Christmas” runs now through December 17 on Fridays and Saturdays at the Opera House in Mantorville. The play is by Jessica Lind Peterson and is directed by Cheryl Frarck.
Charlie and Jennifer have been living for ten years in blissful suburban matrimony, but as their anniversary approaches, Charlie feels suffocated and flees to his family’s hunting shack to find himself.
When he arrives three days before Christmas he is shocked to find his estranged uncle Big Paul, his feisty mistress, Junie, and cousin Ham squatting at the shack running an illegal venison jerky operation.
Desperate to save their marriage, Jennifer follows Charlie to the Northwoods and gets more than she bargained for. Meanwhile, Ham announces he is marrying his internet girlfriend, a Norwegian reindeer jockey named Helge, and Junie’s hot flashes flare up as she goes off the deep end.
An epic snow storm buries any chance of the five-some leaving, and things inside the shack get more heated as Ham and Charlie re-stoke a childhood feud.
Can this oddball crew work together to have a Merry Christmas? A true Minnesota comedy featuring deer heads, passive aggressiveness and great big jars of unidentifiable pickled things — tickets will sell out in a hot flash!