A Holiday Memory opens Nov. 28 at the Bath House Cultural Center, which is located at White Rock Lake Park, and runs through Dec. 15 with matinee performances on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 1:30 p.m. 

A Holiday Memory is based on Truman Capote’s autobiographical recollection of growing up in depressed rural Alabama in the 1930s. 

From a poor Southern family, seven-year-old Buddy and his eccentric elderly cousin, Miss Sook, prepare several dozen fruitcakes to send to people they admire. 

“It’s fruitcake weather,” announces Buddy, and thus begins the Christmas rituals — gathering pecans from those left behind in the harvest, buying illegally made whiskey for soaking the cakes, cutting a tree and decorating it with homemade ornaments — but mostly it is the portrayal of this loving friendship of two souls. 

A theme repeated in Capote’s books and short stories is there are special gifted people in the world, sometimes appearing strange to others, and they have to be treated with understanding. 

This season you can bring your family to the Bath House to see this heartwarming Christmas play and stroll through the gallery for a cultural holiday experience. Reserved seats are available. Call (214) 532-1709 for reservations.