Laurence Inman and Polly Wright delighted everyone with their
'reduced' Christmas Carol on Friday night at the mac. Together they shared a
lively, careful and skilfully edited version of Dickens great novella 'A
Christmas Carol' and somehow all of the fruity, colourful and evocative
description and language of Dickens shone through in this well paced 40 minute
reading. Laurence evoked and presented the crabby, mean spirited essence of
Ebenezer Scrooge and Polly Wright nimbly portrayed the array of characters that
beset and eventually transform Scrooge over the space and time of one night
before Christmas day; the spirits and ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet
to come, as well as Bob Cratchit and the frail and sickly Tiny Tim. 90 pages
are crammed seamlessly into 40 minutes and it is a skilful tribute to Laurence
Inman's care and obvious delight to represent the best in the shortest amount
of time with this most evocative of Christmas stories and our duo of players,
Laurence and Polly who earned a very warm round of applause from an
appreciative audience a week before Christmas. As Tiny Tim declares at the end
of the book and this charming reading "God bless us, everyone!"
'reduced' Christmas Carol on Friday night at the mac. Together they shared a
lively, careful and skilfully edited version of Dickens great novella 'A
Christmas Carol' and somehow all of the fruity, colourful and evocative
description and language of Dickens shone through in this well paced 40 minute
reading. Laurence evoked and presented the crabby, mean spirited essence of
Ebenezer Scrooge and Polly Wright nimbly portrayed the array of characters that
beset and eventually transform Scrooge over the space and time of one night
before Christmas day; the spirits and ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet
to come, as well as Bob Cratchit and the frail and sickly Tiny Tim. 90 pages
are crammed seamlessly into 40 minutes and it is a skilful tribute to Laurence
Inman's care and obvious delight to represent the best in the shortest amount
of time with this most evocative of Christmas stories and our duo of players,
Laurence and Polly who earned a very warm round of applause from an
appreciative audience a week before Christmas. As Tiny Tim declares at the end
of the book and this charming reading "God bless us, everyone!"