Character design by Ronnie Burkett, Photo by Dahlia Katz

Canadian Stage presents Ronnie Burkett and his Theatre of Marionettes with a bawdy take on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. In Little Dickens, Burkett invites the audience to join the colourful cast of his Daisy Theatre in a vaudevillian, cabaret-style retelling of the classic. In the Scrooge role, aging actress Esmé Massengill—a Norma Desmond-esque diva—bah-humbugs herself into spiteful isolation on Christmas Eve when she discovers no audience is there to see her act. Continue Reading