RMTC presents play based on Truman Capote’s Holiday experiences

The Red Mountain Theatre Company is performing the play “Holiday Memories” at the Hoover Library Theatre on Dec. 5-6 .

The play, inspired by Truman Capote’s experiences growing up in Alabama during the Depression, follows the adventures of a young boy during the holiday season.

It covers two stages of his life, the 7-year-old Buddy and the middle-aged Truman, and shares about Southern traditions, the relationships of family and the importance of shared humanity.

The show is being produced in honor of Jack Mann, a mainstay in the Birmingham theater community who died at the end of 2018. Henry Scott is the director.

Mann’s wife, Suzanne, will play the role of Sook Falk, one of Capote’s cousins. Bryant Whitney will play the young Truman, while Kyle Holman will portray the novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor as an adult. Other actors in the play include Nick Crawford and Jessica Clark Boody.

The show should last about 90 minutes, said Jamie Schor, marketing manager for the Red Mountain Theatre Company.

This article was updated on Nov. 22 to correct the name of the director and the length of the production due to a change in information provided by Red Mountain Theatre Company.