A Christmas Carol With Charles Dickens

Atwater Village Theatre
3269 Casitas Ave Atwater Village

In what has become a holiday tradition, ISC re-creates (with a little artistic license) the experience of a public reading given by Mr. Dickens himself. Based on the novelist's own adaptation, A CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH CHARLES DICKENS is performed by ISC co-founder David Melville as Charles Dickens, playing nearly every character in the story. The LA Weekly said, "David Melville has an almost preternatural gift for wry understatement and comic timing." The production features musical accompaniment and dramatic interjections by a young American actress, Miss Kalean Ung

Thru - Dec 23, 2017

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"...As in prior years, the production's main attraction is the opportunity to appreciate Melville's versatile talents: his lightning shifts from one character to the next and the silly exuberance he brings to such sequences as his depiction of Scrooge's "Christmas Past." His pinched-up miser is sharply delineated, albeit softened by the comedy. As to the story, though it remains treacly, its message of caring for one another in a world run by Scrooges registers as more relevant now than ever."

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- Deborah Klugman

A Christmas Carol With Charles Dickens at Atwater Village Theatre