Running five minutes late my girlfriend and I walk into the theatre in Old Town and as we proceed down the aisle to our seats a nun on stage turns and looks at us.

“Girls?” she asks. “Why are we late?”

“Parking?” I respond.

She makes a face as the audience looks.

“Who here had to park tonight?” she asks.

Everyone in the audience raises their hands and laughs, as the nun turns back at us, gives us another glare, then continues her monologue. This made for a good laugh to set the play off and really got us right into it.

The theatre seats around 100 people, so you feel as if her eyes are on everybody, making it an intimate setting.

The play goes on after our slight interruption. The nun also referred to as a Sister goes on to talk about people who have birthdays around Christmas. In the midst of talking she abruptly stops and looks at an audience member.

“Are you chewing gum?” she asks.

“Yes,” the audience member replies.

“What? Are you chewing gum because you have a dry mouth or something?” she says.

The audience member spits out her gum.

“Check out Jesus’ throat?” as she points to him in the nativity scene.

“His mouth is probably dry too but he can’t do anything about it.”

The audience breaks out in laughter.

This comedy production is titled “Sister’s Christmas Catechism-The Mystery of the Magi’s Gold” and is a great way to bring in the holiday season. For those of you who don’t really understand the true meaning behind Christmas this play will answer all your questions in a very funny way.

As the play continues, the Sister goes on to ask the audience general questions about Christmas. Some of the questions included; where the name Santa Claus originated. And what were Mary and Joseph’s parent’s names.

She offered prizes to the audience members for answering correctly. The prizes consisted of chocolates, slap bracelets with the word Jesus on them, green beans, nativity scene stickers, a bag of marshmallows, a giant candy cane, and a can of sweet potatoes.

After the presents were gone and the questions answered, the sister proceeds to ask the audience who has a nativity scene.

There was a choir present for the play that consisted of some children that were part of the San Diego Junior Theatre. Most of those children raised their hands with funny stories about their nativity scenes at home of camels missing legs and eyes and Mary missing hands.

Before intermission the Sister tells us when the audience comes back they will be participating in a live nativity scene to do a re-enactment to solve the problem, who stole the Magi’s gold.

The live nativity scene was hilarious. The whole crowd really got into it. She picked people out of the audience and dressed them up as Mary and Joseph, a drummer boy, a Shepard, three wise men, a sheep, an ox, and an ass (as the sister referred to it).

The costumes consisted of: lampshades, toilet seat covers, shower curtains, fitted shits, animal masks, and old tee shirts.

The costumes made for a very humorous re-enactment to say the least. During the re-enactment the Sister cues the choir to sing along. With everyone in their places the audience tries to figure out, who could have stole the Magi’s gold.

At the end of the show the actor informs the audience that they will be taking donations afterwards for Sisters all over the country since they are exempt from Social Security.

This performance is now playing at the Old Town Theatre through Dec. 13.