In Britain and the Commonwealth, the day after Christmas is celebrated as Boxing Day — traditionally a day for gifts to servants and the poor, now observed as an extra opportunity to recover from the Christmas Day glut. Sandglass Theater’s An Almost Victorian Christmas is a bit of both. It’s a family-flavored gift of puppetry and humor offered as a coda to the holiday entertainment season. The three-part show includes a shadow-puppet Nativity, a Brooklyn-based fable of Christmas courage, and a truly Victorian piece of “potato theater,” a slapstick retelling of Saint George and the Dragon in which vegetable puppets are skewered, chopped and flambéed on a cutting-board stage.
Dec. 26, 3 and 7 p.m., $9, Sandglass Theater, 17 Kimball Hill, Putney, VT, sandglasstheater.org.
