Michael Fields Agricultural Institute will present the Walking the dog Theater production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6.
The East Troy performance is part of a tour that includes communities in New York, Wisconsin and Connecticut in December and several cities in China and Taiwan in the new year.
The theater’s Executive Artistic Director David Anderson performs the piece solo, moving from character to character.
“A Christmas Carol has become an annual tradition in many communities, and it is the best way I know to become inspired by the season,” Anderson said.
Through drama and storytelling, Anderson performs the story exactly as Dickens wrote it, giving the audience not only the dialogue (in multiple London accents) but the descriptive passages as well. Anderson’s rendition, directed by Ted Pugh, is a modern revival of Dickens’ own manner of storytelling.
Dickens gave performances drawn from “A Christmas Carol” and “The Pickwick Papers” throughout the northeastern United States, from his arrival in Boston in mid-November 1867 to his return to England in April 1868.
Walking the dog Theater, Inc. is a professional not-for-profit theater company based in Columbia County, N.Y. For more information, visit www.wtdtheater.org or call (518) 610-0909.
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, W2493 Highway ES, East Troy, is a non-profit organization with the mission to nurture the ecological, social and economic resiliency of food and farming systems through education, research, policy and market development.
