It’s Christmas Eve and Ebenezer Scrooge is drifting off to sleep . . . but he cannot imagine what the night has in store for him. Told with humour and Dickens’ own transcendent prose, Ron Reed embodies Scrooge and forty-three other characters in the greatest Christmas story ever written.
Can a life ill-spent be redeemed?
Artistic Team
CAST
Ron Reed Performer
PRODUCTION TEAM
Morris Ertman Director
Ron Reed Playwright
Drew Facey Set Design
Julie White Costume Design
Michael Hewitt Lighting Design
Ben Elliott Sound Design + Original Composition
Victoria Snashall Stage Management
Showtimes
Nov 29 – Dec 21
Shows Wed-Sat at 8:00 PM
Saturday Matinees at 2:00 PM
NOTE: There is no matinee performance on Saturday, December 7th.
NOTE: There is a Relaxed Performance on Sunday, Dec 8th at 2:00 PM.
Special Performances
Pay-what-you-can Preview: Thursday Nov 28
Actor Talkback: Post-Show Friday Dec 6
Relaxed Performance: Sunday, Dec 8 @ 2:00 PM
Theatre Club Panel Discussion – Adaptation: the passion, pleasure and pitfalls of adapting novels for the stage: Saturday, Dec 14 @ 2:00pm post-matinee
Panel Speakers:
Ron Reed
As the Founding Artistic Director of Pacific Theatre, Ron needs very little introduction – especially as the playwright who wrote the adaptation of A Christmas Carol which is being presented this season.
Lucia Frangione
Lucia Frangione is an internationally produced, award-winning playwright and actor residing in Vancouver and has had a long association with Pacific Theatre, where five of her twenty-eight plays were premiered. She recently adapted Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man for Vertigo Theatre in Calgary.
Peter Anderson
Playwright and actor Peter Anderson was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1950. He studied at the University of Michigan and the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre before hitch-hiking to Canada in 1977 to join the Caravan Stage Company. His extensive body of work (over a dozen plays) for the Caravan Farm Theatre has been lauded as “populist high comedy.” He’s the recipient of six Jessie Richardson Awards, a Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, Leo and Gemini nominations for best performance (The Overcoat), a NY Drama Desk nomination, and Dora Mavor Moore and Betty Mitchell nominations. His stage adaptations include Don Quixote, The Emperor’s New Threads and Sleigh-Ride Christmas Carol.
It’s Christmas Eve and Ebenezer Scrooge is drifting off to sleep . . . but he cannot imagine what the night has in store for him. Told with humour and Dickens’ own transcendent prose, Ron Reed embodies Scrooge and forty-three other characters in the greatest Christmas story ever written.
Can a life ill-spent be redeemed?
Directed by Morris Ertman.
Featuring Ron Reed.
Suitable for audiences aged 8+
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Here's the measure of how good Ron Reed's A Christmas Carol is: in an audience that must have known much of the story cold, and many of the best lines off by heart, people laughed, and sighed, and even groaned during the performance we saw. GO--even or especially if you think you already know this tale.
Here's what they say about the show
Teresa Oades
This was a wonderful portrayal of A Christmas Carol! What a storyteller, he painted vivid pictures with his words and actions!
Karen Cooper
Here's the measure of how good Ron Reed's A Christmas Carol is: in an audience that must have known much of the story cold, and many of the best lines off by heart, people laughed, and sighed, and even groaned during the performance we saw. GO--even or especially if you think you already know this tale.
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