Actors Must Portray Darkness of `Carol' While Keeping Up Spirit

Summary


Ghosts and greed and shuffling off the mortal coil - it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

On Friday, the Augusta Players open their annual production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The story, which centers on literature's most famous miser and his spiritual Christmas awakening, represents a challenge to actors. On one hand, it's a dark piece full of death and dark foreboding. On the other, it's a Christmas play, and audiences insist on leaving feeling as though their bells have been jingled.

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Actors Must Portray Darkness of `Carol' While Keeping Up Spirit

"It's always a fine line to walk," said Richard ...

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