A Dickens Christmas Held At Hedgerow Theatre 12/12

Christmas is high art at the Hedgerow this year, with Jared Reed in A Dickens Christmas. This stunning new adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, is a one-person tour-de-force that brings to life the original language of the beloved classic story. It runs from November 26th to December 12th at the Hedgerow Theatre. This bold, creative approach to the story runs in repertory with Hedgerow's two other Christmas shows: their classic, traditional A Christmas Carol, and the hilarious send-up of Christmas pageantry Nuncrackers.

After completing his heartwarming masterpiece, Charles Dickens spent years doing public readings of the book, and rocketed to his position as a literary superstar for his time. It was those same readings that inspired Jared Reed, master player and co-artistic director of the Curio Theater Company, to create his brilliant adaptation, in which he plays all the parts himself. This exciting new production debuted to critical acclaim at Curio Theatre in 2008.

"I decided to do it this way as this is how Dickens himself performed it," says Reed. "It lends itself to solo performance wonderfully and really brings the story alive in a way that is fresh for a modern audience by, ironically, getting back to the roots of how theatre was originally performed."

Mr. Reed is a graduate of the Juilliard School in Drama. He has appeared Off-Broadway at The Roundabout and starred in The Woman in Black at the Minetta Lane. Some of his regional theatre credits include Seattle Repertory, McCarter Theatre, Yale Repertory, the Huntingdon, The Old Globe in San Diego. His most recent regional performance was at the Walnut Street Theatre in The Philadelphia Story. He has written and directed many shows at Hedgerow Theatre and for Curio, including Great Expectations, The Iliad, and The Hanging.g.

This year, A Dickens Christmas is part of Hedgerow's Holiday Triple Play event, which includes Hedgerow's traditional, classic version of A Christmas Carol, and the hilarious Nuncrackers, the holiday sequel to Nunsense. Hedgerow is providing special discounts for patrons that would like to see all three of these shows-a Holiday Triple Play package that saves an additional ten percent off of the already phenomenal Flex Six ticket package.

Show times for A Dickens Christmas are 7:30 p.m. Nov. 26, 27, Dec. 1-2 and Dec. 4 and 2 p.m. Nov. 28 and Dec. 5.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors, and $10 for students and children under 18. Call for information on group discounts. The Holiday TriplePlay package is $99 for six mix-and-match tickets to any of these three holiday shows. For reservations, call (610) 565-4211, or visit www.hedgerowtheatre.org. Hedgerow Theatre is located at 64 Rose Valley Road in Rose Valley (near Media), PA.

Photo: Jared Reed as Charles Dickens in a Dickens Christmas at Hedgerow Theatre.
Photo courtesy of Curio Theatre

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