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About The Show:

by Artistic Director Cyndi Kimmel

I find myself repeatedly drawn to Marley’s text, “I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I created it of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” This statement tells us Marley’s purpose in the story, but also offers us a glimpse into the “hero’s progress” journey of healing Scrooge will experience. He too will come face to face with the chain he’s built within and around himself.

Interestingly, Scrooge’s nephew Fred describes Christmas as “the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” His thought suggests there’s more than one kind of chain, and recognizing the links between humanity can be a good and beautiful thing. My goal as director is to explore the chains and links we carry and wear in a way that encourages us all, as fellow humans, to be ok with caring for ourselves and each other.

Our show is playfully performative and presented in a less formal, reader’s theatre style.