a christmas carol | theatre club talkback dec 14

For our Christmas Carol theatre club talkback, our topic is Adaptation: the passion, pleasure and pitfalls of adapting novels for the stage.

Our incredibly talented speakers are:

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 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.