Biltmore Village payed homage to the holidays with its Victorian Christmas celebration this weekend. It features horse-and-carriage rides and dancers, musicians and players in period costume adding a little flavor to the shopping district.
So here, meet Scrooge. He was part of a band of thespians pimping their upcoming Ashvegas Community Theatre production of “A Christmas Carol.” The performers were somewhat subdued. They seemed somewhat unprepared, out of their element. Scrooge totally looked the part, but forget his lines during the performance I watched.
Still, it took me back to my memories of reading Dickens and of watching the famous movie. I love them both, though Dickens’ words remain pure poetry. Go back and read the classic. And enjoy a couple of these quotes I pulled together.
“If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”
“You don’t believe in me,” observed the Ghost.
“I don’t,” said Scrooge.
“What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses?”
”I don’t know,” said Scrooge.
“Why do you doubt your senses?”
”Because,” said Scrooge, “a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of
an underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than grave about you, whatever you are.”
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
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EM, I wasn’t even thinking vampires, but you’re right. I’ll bring you a wreath of garlic to hang on the pnav front door.
Walker, I have seen the production. It’s great. I think the troupe was having an off day, and there were a lot of distractions – car alarms, rain, people popping photos, etc.
Catnap, thanks for the other quotes. Great stuff!
"I wear the chains I forged in life. I made them link by link."
"They cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."
"Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
"And yet, you don’t find me ill-used when I pay a day’s wages for no work."
"A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December."
I always thought Scrooge was misunderstood. A lot of terrible things happened to him on Christmas throughout his life.
And in the end, he saw the bigger picture, and decided to make the world a better place. It had more to do with his eyes being opened to those around him and less to do with the fear of ending up like Marley’s ghost.
Ash
This dude rocks as Scroge in the Montford Park Players production of The Christmas Carol. Have you seen him in it?
Love the vampirish imagery. I’d like to put a stake of holly through the hearts of the folks with the spastic light display next door.