Once upon a Christmas Eve

The show combines solo cabaret style Christmas carols with some group singing (Unsplash/Lalu Varghese).

A Macedon Ranges performance group, Safe Space Performances, is inviting residents to join it in a fairytale for grown ups packed with carols, laughs, fun and frivolity.

Held at the Bluestone Theatre on December 16, at 7.30pm, the show follows an unlikely group of travellers as they are thrust together by fate on the morning of Christmas Eve.

Evacuated from their ship, far from their destination and stranded in a Mediterranean costal village, the story begins as they arrive at Sophia’s Cabaret Restaurant- the last place they thought they would be.

Safe Space Performances founder Gabriel Macura said she has wanted to create a Christmas show like this for a few years.

“We are so excited to be presenting it at the gorgeous Bluestone Theatre. Everyone involved has stepped up so tremendously- the show is an absolute riot,” she said.

“I wrote out a storyline and each performer has created their own character based on being a group of evacuated passengers from a cruise style ship which has broken down the morning of Christmas Eve.

“The show combines solo cabaret style Christmas carols with some group singing all packaged in a story with fabulous characters, and has developed organically into a hilarious and touching show.”