A Christmas Carol...
Though London awaits the joyful arrival of Christmas, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge thinks it's all humbug, berating his faithful clerk and cheerful nephew for their view. Later, Scrooge encounters the ghost of his late business partner, who warns that three spirits will visit him this night. The ghosts take Scrooge on a journey through his past, present and future in the hope of transforming his bitterness.
This play is more than a morality tale. It strikes at the heart of the emotion of one of the world's favorite religious and secular holidays and asks powerful questions about how people relate to one another in a cold and often hostile world. Dickens was making that point in a London that was, at the time, overrun with poverty and illness, and the upper crust had to be pushed into the acceptance of their role in helping people less privileged.
Sound familiar? The Festival's production is a good one, and the actors put flesh on the bones of the people with the most need of love and attention at Christmas as well on the man who is the symbol of help for them.
RPW
This play is more than a morality tale. It strikes at the heart of the emotion of one of the world's favorite religious and secular holidays and asks powerful questions about how people relate to one another in a cold and often hostile world. Dickens was making that point in a London that was, at the time, overrun with poverty and illness, and the upper crust had to be pushed into the acceptance of their role in helping people less privileged.
Sound familiar? The Festival's production is a good one, and the actors put flesh on the bones of the people with the most need of love and attention at Christmas as well on the man who is the symbol of help for them.
RPW