A Christmas Carol: Readers Style
Date and Time
Saturday Dec 5, 2015
December 5th
5:30pm
Location
Oldcastle Theatre
331 Main Street
Bennington, VT
Fees/Admission
Bennington Tickets: $15 Adults, $9 Youth, Children Under 12 Free.
Description
Christmas in the Heart
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
Begin your holiday season with Shakespeare on Main Street as they present this timeless holiday classic in intimate Readers Theatre style.
In A Christmas Carol, Dickens explores the morality of the love of money over the love of family and people. Scrooge sees the way his life has slipped into a basically unhappy and lonely old age where he has lost the possibility of love and friendship. This holiday masterwork is a story of compassion, forgiveness and redemption.
Director Gary Meitrott adapts Readers Theater to include costuming and movement by the actors, adding a dramatic element to the performance. With simple, yet elegant, Victorian furniture and costuming, five actors bring all of the characters to life using Dickens’ original words.
Meitrott, a lover of classic literature and founder of SoMS, says, “Even though we are all connected electronically, we are also isolated as individuals. A Christmas Carol rings truer than ever in its lesson to give and to love with every moment we have.”
The cast features Martin Bones, Jonathan White, Meg Wood, Lawrence Zupan and Zachary Zupan.
