Great Lakes Theater’s A Christmas Carol

Open your heart to Charles Dickens’ classic tale of one man’s ultimate redemption.

A Christmas Carol is a perfect gift of theater for children and adults of all ages. Celebrate the season with the ones you love.

Gerald Freedman reflects on his role as adapter and director of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol:

“Our production takes place in a middle-class London home. It is Christmas Eve, 1864, Twenty years after Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol. As the Cleveland family sits down to the traditional reading of the story, the youngest child, a boy, begins to imagine the story that is being told to him. We see the play from his point of view.

Dickens called the story a Ghost Story, and we have tried to remain true to this description, while at the same time creating an entertaining piece of theater.

Scrooge is a young man born into poverty who grows up distorted into thinking money is everything. He rejects his spiritual side and his heart becomes small and cold. Through the course of the story, he learns that he can change. The Spirits show him how loving people were in the past, how needy they are in the present, and that the results of his current pattern of behavior are to die alone without family, friends or love.

I think Dickens is essentially saying it is never too later to change — not only yourself, but the world. One good deed, if allowed to, can and will spread through the world.

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A Cleveland tradition that every family must see!

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Presented by Great Lakes Theater

Written by: Charles Dickens
Adapted and Directed by: Gerald Freedman

SHOW DETAILS 

Performances: November 24 – December 23, 2023.

Tickets: $35-99. Click here to purchase tickets

Location: Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square Center

Run Time: 1 Hour and 45 minutes (including intermission)