Meredith Noël as Fred, photo credit VSC
This production keeps the narrative style of the novella at heart.
Meredith Noël begins with the familiar opening, declaring what we indeed know to be true: Marley was dead. All the actors are initially masked and remove them at start. Each plays multiple roles throughout as they step quickly in and out of narration. While Mullins, himself, deftly takes on Scrooge. Particularly noteworthy performances stand out for
Meredith Noël as Fred, Belle, and Mrs. Cratchit,
Trezure Coles beautifully fills in all the blanks from Tiny Tim presented in creeptastic and maybe unnecessary puppet form to my own silly personal favorite, Turkey Boy, and
World in a dish
When it comes to the festive menu, far more is at stake than stuffing
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My Jewish grandparents adopted many local traditions when they fled to Britain from Vienna in 1938. They became members of the Women’s Institute and Rotary Club, attended an Anglican church – and they ate a proper Christmas dinner. Christmas Eve is the main event in Austria and the meal centres on fish. But to insist on celebrating this way would have marked them out as different. Even for newly arrived refugees it was immediately obvious what you should eat on Christmas day: roast chicken (then a luxury, and more appropriate for a family of four than a vast turkey), roast potatoes, Brussels sprouts and gravy.