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Six people, telling the story, playing all the roles, in an abandoned industrial space. This isn't your average, feel-good Christmas tale. But it was never supposed to be.
We all know the story: The redemption of a cranky miser at Christmas, a ghost story designed to let an audience feel good about themselves for not being heartless. But Charles Dickens wasn't trying to make people feel good, he was trying to show them a stark reality, scaring them into being more human. He wrote "A Christmas Carol" to shake up society, and with A Red Carol we are re-establishing his story as the revolutionary call-to-action Dickens intended.
With music, joy, and plenty of harsh truths about his time and ours, A Red Carol is the demand for economic and social justice Dickens wanted then, and we need now.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s politically progressive adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” features a six-actor cast that includes Bay Area favorite Mike McShane as the notorious Scrooge. Playwright/director Michael Gene Sullivan has described his version as less a story of one stingy geezer’s ultimate redemption and more a pointed social commentary that, sadly, is apropos for our times. Broad comedy and music guaranteed.
Jean Schiffman
Contributing Writer, Theater
San Francisco Mime Troupe