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MEDIA RELEASE
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SEPT 2008
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the Arts Centre and Spiegeltent International present
The Arts Centre Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Charles Dickens performs A Christmas CarolSunday November 2,9 23 at 4pm and November 16 at 2pm Tickets On the 27th December 1853, Dickens gave his first public performance of A Christmas Carol. Every single character had “a different voice, a different style, a different face" (The Cambridge Independent Press -- 1859). Dickens was a superstar. The acclaim was deafening, and during the last 17 years of his life Dickens gave 444 solo performances of his work in Great Britain, the United States and on the Continent. - Now he is back and on tour. Working from the original prompt copy, including directions in the author's handwriting, Performer Phil Zachariah and Director James Adler have created an "outstanding performance . . . every member of the audience was transfixed" (Anne-Marie Peard, AussieTheatre.com -- 2006). “Zachariah becomes Dickens and does not so much read A Christmas Carol as become the story.” (Kate Rose, Sunday Herald Sun -- 2005) "...his authority over the role and the audience is complete” (Melbourne Stage Online -- 2006). “...in the same ball park as [Miriam Margolyes’ Dickens’ Women]” (Cameron Woodhead, The Age -- 2007). Since 2003 this production has defied expectations, touring the east coast of Australia to standing ovations and sold-out houses. This Christmas, across Victoria and once again in the Famous Spiegeltent, this uproariously funny, profoundly moving story of redemption is the one show not to miss. "... one of the most engaging, powerful and suspenseful nights of theatrical story telling." -- AussieTheatre.com (2006)
The Spiegeltent Melbourne concert program will be available October 2008.
All tickets through Ticketmaster • Ph: 1300 136 166 or www.ticketmaster.com.au www.spiegeltent.net |
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For media info regarding The Famous Spiegeltent Melbourne 2008 season please contact Buxton Walker Publicity |
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