Photo Flash: Charity Readers Theatre's MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET

By: Stephi Wild Dec. 24, 2017

Charity Readers Theatre presented the fundraising show production of the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street on December 16.

Miracle on 34th Street is about the true spirit of Christmas and believing in the magic of it all. When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

The production had one performance only: Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 7:30 pm. at International School of Beijing. 100 percent of all ticket sales were donated to charity. The beneficiary of this performance of Miracle on 34th Street is Yuanzhong Gender Development Center.

Charity Readers Theatre, presented by Beijing Playhouse Drama Club, is all about acting, acting, acting. There are almost no costumes, no props, no sets, no lighting design, no sound design, no subtitles. It's all acting. And as it is readers theatre, actors will carry scripts to refer to. Charity Readers Theatre is an artistic process where actors rehearse for only one week. And at the end of that week, we do one performance only. It's a show in a week.

Photo Credit: Shizhi Feng