Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Saturday, December 19 7:00pm $25 Swarthmore United Methodist Church 129 Park Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081
A benefit performance for Swarthmore United Methodist Church
A candlelit reading of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol with original music by Drew Petersen at Swarthmore United Methodist Church. Originally produced by Curio Theatre Company in West Philadelphia, Jared has crafted the piece from the reading version enacted by Dickens himself.
From the Broad Street Review By Mark Cofta for the 2018 Production at Hedgerow Theatre
A Christmas Carol is the most produced show in the nation…But for a live performance in an intimate theater, Reed’s can’t be beat.
Reed’s adaptation provides a more thoughtful, grounded, and personal telling of the familiar story, inviting us to conjure the supernatural events in our imaginations and to experience Scrooge’s transformation with him. Reed appears like a ghost — lighting a match on a dark stage with his first words, “Marley was dead.” He then exits, spiritlike, by extinguishing his candle, rewrapping the old tale as a theatrically eerie experience.
Sure, share the happy, colorful spectacle of most productions of A Christmas Carol with the kids. It obviously keeps working. Immersion in Dickens’s words via Reed’s expressive yet soothing voice, however, provides existential chills and spiritual thrills that make a fine Christmas gift for adults.
Saturday, December 19, 2026 at 7pm
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