Theatre | December 15-18, 2022 | THU-SUN | Tickets Available Here!

The Matchbox Theater Company will present the Southwest premiere of The Booby Trap, a dark comedy by award-winning playwright, Marcus Downs. The Booby Trap, directed by MTC Producing Artistic Director Douglas Stewart, is a holiday tale of humbug and redemption with moments of caustic hilarity. The play, set in Chicago 1996, shows how a dysfunctional Catholic family conducts an all-out civil war for its legacy and self-respect. The family’s matriarch, Marcy Daugherty, tries desperately to hold the family together as her family struggles with learning how to be sincere. A surprise guest and other family antics turn the whole evening upside down and sideways. Theater audiences will possibly go away with questions about their own family dysfunction, religiosity, alcoholism, holiday chaos, love, and joy!

The ensemble cast of The Booby Trap features the talents of Gurudarshan (MARCY), Matthew Van Wettering (KIERAN), Jason Connelly (JAMES), Douglas Stewart (FRANK), and Rebecca Lynn Farrell (ZINA).