Runs through Wed 12/29 @ 8PM
A Christmas Carol @ Actors’ Summit has garnered rave reviews. Catch a performance & start your holidays off right.
Info:
A Christmas Carol made the transition from the page to the stage almost instantly. Doris Baizley adapted the 1843 novella in 1977 for the Mark Taper Forum. Throughout most of the ’80’s this adaptation was performed annually at the Cleveland Play House with Wayne Turney portraying Ebenezer Scrooge.
The plot of Scrooge’s redemption, through visits from the spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future, is told by a troupe of traveling players. The challenges facing the group of actors are daunting. The stage manager fired the actor playing Tiny Tim, the actor playing Scrooge has just quit and no one can find the prop chain that Marley’s ghost enters wearing. Imagination, improvisation, a little bit of mime and some unexpected casting allows the company, and the story, to thrive.
In addition to carols of the season, the company of actors also performs on hand bells on and off stage.
Show runs Thu 12/23 @ 8PM; Sun 12/26 @ 2PM; Tue 12/28 & Wed 12/29 @ 8PM.
Greystone Hall – 103 South High Street, 6th Floor – Akron
http://ActorsSummit.org/onstage.htm
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