Manual Cinema’s “Christmas Carol”
In this live world-premiere online event created for audiences of all ages, interdisciplinary performance collective Manual Cinema takes on Charles Dickens' holiday classic, A Christmas Carol,with a visually inventive adaptation made specifically for the 2020 holiday season.
An avowed holiday skeptic, Aunt Trudy has been recruited to channel her late husband Joe’s famous Christmas cheer. From the isolation of her studio apartment, she reconstructs his annual Christmas Carol puppet show - over a Zoom call while the family celebrates Christmas Eve under lockdown. But as Trudy becomes more absorbed in her own version of the story, the puppets take on a life of their own, and the family’s call transforms into a stunning cinematic adaptation of Dickens’s classic ghost story.
Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol will run one hour in length. It will be told with hundreds of paper puppets, miniatures, silhouettes, and a live original score in an imaginative re-invention of a cherished holiday tradition.
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here.
SIUE students can obtain tickets here.
Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol was co-commissioned by
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Arts & Issues.
Program credits here.
This presentation is sponsored by the SIUE Alumni Association, Commerce Bank and the SIUE Foundation.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
The Alestle is an Arts & Issues media sponsor.
