Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol - One-Man Show
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On Christmas Eve, December 24th, 2016, ShakeCo: The Shakespeare Company will present a one-man-show of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Produced and performed by ShakeCo Artistic Director and MuCCC Artist-in-Residence Philip R. Frey, "A Christmas Carol" will be presented at MuCCC, the Multi-use Community Cultural Center, 142 Atlantic Avenue, Rochester. Doors open at 1:30pm and the show begins at 2:00pm. Admission is free to the public with donations to the MuCCC accepted at the door.
About "A Christmas Carol":
Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" in 1843 as an attempt to stir the British public to an awareness of the poverty and hardships around them. Its tale of a miserly old man who learns the importance of generosity and "Christmas spirit" was an immediate success and has been in continual print to this day. It was first adapted to the stage within months of publication and is one of the most-filmed stories in cinematic history. Dickens himself took to reading the tale to audiences and "Carol" was the work he chose for his farewell performance, mere months before his death.
About the production:
ShakeCo has been staging an annual production of "A Christmas Carol" since 2011. This year's production is designed to recreate Dicken's own presentations and Philip Frey will be performing the show (as Dickens) utilizing the same text Dickens used in his public readings.
About ShakeCo:
ShakeCo: The Shakespeare Company of Greater Rochester is a locally based small-scale production company devoted primarily to the performance of Shakespeare’s works throughout the Greater Rochester area. The Company put on its first production, "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", in August of 2000 and produced nine shows over the next five years. Returning from an extended hiatus with 2010’s production of “R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)”, the "Young Audiences" program was re-launched later that year with "Young Prince Hal". ShakeCo has also produced a series of "ShakeCo Radio Theater" live "old time radio" dramas.
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