tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8673965398898619575.post3922521012469580795..comments2024-02-05T01:03:12.476-08:00Comments on Que j'ai rêvé: A Christmas Carol/A Very Neo-Futurist Christmas CarolPaul Rekkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14877967547670893967noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8673965398898619575.post-34582491104673037302008-12-29T10:33:00.000-08:002008-12-29T10:33:00.000-08:00My favorite stage version of A Christmas Carol is ...My favorite stage version of A Christmas Carol is from San Francisco's Theatre of Yugen, who did A Noh Christmas Carol for several years. In addition to very cool bunraku puppets for Want and Ignorance, the story also included a coda where Marley's Ghost, covered in paper chains, comes back at the end, and Scrooge unwinds the chains and sets him free. (This was before I saw Tom Mula's "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol," which also includes redemption for Marley at its center.) That moment always had me in tears -- just a silent ritual between the two old friends.Kerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08080562143570264504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8673965398898619575.post-21209599591793593052008-12-29T07:59:00.000-08:002008-12-29T07:59:00.000-08:00For as much as I detest the Christmas season, Dick...For as much as I detest the Christmas season, Dicken's A CHRISTMAS CAROL really gets to me. The novel is great, and I can only imagine how terrifying and scathing it must have been upon its publication. In 1839, half of all London funerals were for children under 10 dying of diseases contracted primarily at workhouses. Check out this line from the novel when the ghost of Christmas Present reveals two ghastly feral-like children to Scrooge:<BR/><BR/>"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased." <BR/><BR/>Brilliant. Do yourself a favor and read the novel next Christmas. You'll be glad you did. <BR/><BR/>-nathanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com