Event

Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge

5th Wall Theatre presents
Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge
by Christopher Durang
Music by Michael Friedman

December 9, 8PM
The Speakeasy
526 N. 2nd St.
Richmond, VA 23219

"A rollicking parody!" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A hilarious success! The show goes in so many wonderfully loony directions at once." - Pittsburgh Pulp

"Fiendishly funny...never disappoints. Wild it most certainly is, without apologies." - Observer-Reporter

"The show is hilarious, and the audience was crazy! Seriously, as opposed to laughing, they just screamed at the stage." - The Young People's Guide to Theatre and the Galaxy

In this departure from Dickens, young Scrooge's exclamations of "Bah, humbug!" are an undiagnosed "kind of seasonal Tourette's Syndrome," and the Ghost of Christmas Past is played by a sassy African-American woman with enough attitude to portray all three spirits (which she does). She tries to show Scrooge his past, present and future in order to change him, but her magic keeps malfunctioning in Durang's version of the beloved holiday classic, and they consistently find themselves transported to the wrong time and place. Mrs. Bob Cratchit, a minor character in the Dickens, takes center stage here. No longer loving and long suffering, Mrs. Bob is in a rage! As the Ghost loses more control, the plot morphs into parodies of Oliver Twist, "The Gift of the Magi", and It's a Wonderful Life. In this rollicking parody, Scrooge's tale of redemption and gentle grace is placed squarely on its head!