The San Francisco Mime Troupe in cooperation with Z Space presents...
A RED CAROL
An Activist Adaptation of the Dickens Classic - Featuring Traditional Music
Based on the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Starring MIKE McSHANE (B'way., Film & TV actor) as Ebenezer Scrooge
Adapted For the Stage and Directed by Michael Gene Sullivan
In A Red Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is a corporate banker, busy foreclosing on the hapless masses.
Bob Cratchit and his beleaguered family live in a chilly tent in an anonymous homeless encampment. The ghost of Christmas future sports a flowing black robe of taped-together trash bags and plastic sheeting. Tiny Tim dies. At least that's how the SF Mime Troupe's resident playwright, Michael Gene Sullivan, has reimagined A Red Carol for the troubled 21st century.
The idea for Sullivan's production speaks right to Dickens' main concern - the limitations inherent in modern capitalism - for a new time. The ghost of Christmas past still reminds Scrooge of the man he was and the paths he, sadly, did not choose. The ghost of Christmas present underscores the hard lives of the 99 percent - and the miserly banker's part in making them so. And the ghost of Christmas future still offers fear and the promise of redemption.
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.
"People always think this story is about you," Bob Crachit tells Scrooge. "But it ain't about you, it's about us - and how we let ourselves get infected with your ideas, your greed, your lies, it's you steppin' over the hungry and homeless and us following your lead, it's us lettin' you turn our government into a casino, listenin' while you say day after day that profit is the new god, and us not standin' up and shouting "NO!"'. "It ain't about you," Cratchit says. "It's about us."
Featuring: A six person cast that includes present and veteran SF Mime Troupers:
Velina Brown; Keiko Shimosato-Carreiro, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Jed Pasario, Brian Rivera.
Musicians: Daniel Savio - piano, Guinevere Q - bass, Jason Young - mandolin.
with Additional Lyrics / Arrangements by Daniel Savio
Music Consulting by Bruce Barthol
Sound Design & Engineering by Taylor Gonzalez
show less
A RED CAROL
An Activist Adaptation of the Dickens Classic - Featuring Traditional Music
Based on the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Starring MIKE McSHANE (B'way., Film & TV actor) as Ebenezer Scrooge
Adapted For the Stage and Directed by Michael Gene Sullivan
In A Red Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is a corporate banker, busy foreclosing on the hapless masses.
Bob Cratchit and his beleaguered family live in a chilly tent in an anonymous homeless encampment. The ghost of Christmas future sports a flowing black robe of taped-together trash bags and plastic sheeting. Tiny Tim dies. At least that's how the SF Mime Troupe's resident playwright, Michael Gene Sullivan, has reimagined A Red Carol for the troubled 21st century.
The idea for Sullivan's production speaks right to Dickens' main concern - the limitations inherent in modern capitalism - for a new time. The ghost of Christmas past still reminds Scrooge of the man he was and the paths he, sadly, did not choose. The ghost of Christmas present underscores the hard lives of the 99 percent - and the miserly banker's part in making them so. And the ghost of Christmas future still offers fear and the promise of redemption.
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.
"People always think this story is about you," Bob Crachit tells Scrooge. "But it ain't about you, it's about us - and how we let ourselves get infected with your ideas, your greed, your lies, it's you steppin' over the hungry and homeless and us following your lead, it's us lettin' you turn our government into a casino, listenin' while you say day after day that profit is the new god, and us not standin' up and shouting "NO!"'. "It ain't about you," Cratchit says. "It's about us."
Featuring: A six person cast that includes present and veteran SF Mime Troupers:
Velina Brown; Keiko Shimosato-Carreiro, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Jed Pasario, Brian Rivera.
Musicians: Daniel Savio - piano, Guinevere Q - bass, Jason Young - mandolin.
with Additional Lyrics / Arrangements by Daniel Savio
Music Consulting by Bruce Barthol
Sound Design & Engineering by Taylor Gonzalez
The San Francisco Mime Troupe in cooperation with Z Space presents...
A RED CAROL
An Activist Adaptation of the Dickens Classic - Featuring Traditional Music
Based on the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Starring MIKE McSHANE (B'way., Film & TV actor) as Ebenezer Scrooge
Adapted For the Stage and Directed by Michael Gene Sullivan
In A Red Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is a corporate banker, busy foreclosing on the hapless masses.
Bob Cratchit and his beleaguered family live in a chilly tent in an anonymous homeless encampment. The ghost of Christmas future sports a flowing black robe of taped-together trash bags and plastic sheeting. Tiny Tim dies. At least that's how the SF Mime Troupe's resident playwright, Michael Gene Sullivan, has reimagined A Red Carol for the troubled 21st century.
The idea for Sullivan's production speaks right to Dickens' main concern - the limitations inherent in modern capitalism - for a new time. The ghost of Christmas past still reminds Scrooge of the man he was and the paths he, sadly, did not choose. The ghost of Christmas present underscores the hard lives of the 99 percent - and the miserly banker's part in making them so. And the ghost of Christmas future still offers fear and the promise of redemption.
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.
"People always think this story is about you," Bob Crachit tells Scrooge. "But it ain't about you, it's about us - and how we let ourselves get infected with your ideas, your greed, your lies, it's you steppin' over the hungry and homeless and us following your lead, it's us lettin' you turn our government into a casino, listenin' while you say day after day that profit is the new god, and us not standin' up and shouting "NO!"'. "It ain't about you," Cratchit says. "It's about us."
Featuring: A six person cast that includes present and veteran SF Mime Troupers:
Velina Brown; Keiko Shimosato-Carreiro, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Jed Pasario, Brian Rivera.
Musicians: Daniel Savio - piano, Guinevere Q - bass, Jason Young - mandolin.
with Additional Lyrics / Arrangements by Daniel Savio
Music Consulting by Bruce Barthol
Sound Design & Engineering by Taylor Gonzalez
read more
A RED CAROL
An Activist Adaptation of the Dickens Classic - Featuring Traditional Music
Based on the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Starring MIKE McSHANE (B'way., Film & TV actor) as Ebenezer Scrooge
Adapted For the Stage and Directed by Michael Gene Sullivan
In A Red Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is a corporate banker, busy foreclosing on the hapless masses.
Bob Cratchit and his beleaguered family live in a chilly tent in an anonymous homeless encampment. The ghost of Christmas future sports a flowing black robe of taped-together trash bags and plastic sheeting. Tiny Tim dies. At least that's how the SF Mime Troupe's resident playwright, Michael Gene Sullivan, has reimagined A Red Carol for the troubled 21st century.
The idea for Sullivan's production speaks right to Dickens' main concern - the limitations inherent in modern capitalism - for a new time. The ghost of Christmas past still reminds Scrooge of the man he was and the paths he, sadly, did not choose. The ghost of Christmas present underscores the hard lives of the 99 percent - and the miserly banker's part in making them so. And the ghost of Christmas future still offers fear and the promise of redemption.
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.
"People always think this story is about you," Bob Crachit tells Scrooge. "But it ain't about you, it's about us - and how we let ourselves get infected with your ideas, your greed, your lies, it's you steppin' over the hungry and homeless and us following your lead, it's us lettin' you turn our government into a casino, listenin' while you say day after day that profit is the new god, and us not standin' up and shouting "NO!"'. "It ain't about you," Cratchit says. "It's about us."
Featuring: A six person cast that includes present and veteran SF Mime Troupers:
Velina Brown; Keiko Shimosato-Carreiro, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Jed Pasario, Brian Rivera.
Musicians: Daniel Savio - piano, Guinevere Q - bass, Jason Young - mandolin.
with Additional Lyrics / Arrangements by Daniel Savio
Music Consulting by Bruce Barthol
Sound Design & Engineering by Taylor Gonzalez
show less
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