Need some holiday cheer? (I know I do!) We've got it, right here.
Thank you to the Williams Center for the Arts for hosting our first 2020 holiday GIVEAWAY!
Yup--that's right. We're giving away a FAMILY PASS to watch Manual Cinema's adaptation of the classic holiday favorite, A Christmas Carol! Here is a bit about the show:
December 5–19, 2020
Manual Cinema
A Christmas Carol
Saturday / December 5, 2020 / 4 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Sunday / December 6, 2020 / 4 p.m.
Saturday / December 12, 2020 / 4 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Friday / December 18, 2020 / 8 p.m.
Saturday / December 19, 2020 / 4 p.m. & 8 p.m.
In this world premiere, live, online event, the interdisciplinary performance collective Manual Cinema takes on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, a visually inventive adaptation made specially for the 2020 holiday season.
An avowed holiday skeptic, Aunt Trudy has been recruited to channel her late husband Joe’s famous Christmas cheer. From the isolation of her studio apartment, she reconstructs his annual “Christmas Carol” puppet show—over a Zoom call while the family celebrates Christmas Eve under lockdown. But as Trudy becomes more absorbed in her own version of the story, the puppets take on a life of their own, and the family’s call transforms into a stunning retelling of Dickens’ timeless ghost story.
True to their name, the ingenious Chicago-based company Manual Cinema creates large-scale cinematic wonderment using intimate, lo-fi technologies: shadow puppets, overhead projectors, live-feed cameras, actors in profile. Deceptively simple in concept, their vision is deeply rooted in the nascent days of cinema, during which silent films were a limitation of technology, but not of the imagination. The company returns in this virtual event following their immensely illuminating 2016 Williams Center debut, Ada/Ava, and last season’s No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Told with hundreds of paper puppets, miniatures, silhouettes, and a live original score, Manual Cinema’s A Christmas Carol is an imaginative reinvention of a cherished holiday tradition. A Christmas Carol is appropriate for all ages and runs one hour in length. Please note that this is appointment viewing—A Christmas Carol is performed live, starts promptly on the hour, and will not be available to stream on demand at a later time. Please choose your preferred showtime accordingly.
General public livestream access: $20 per household / reserve here
Lafayette students, faculty, and staff:
log in with your Lafayette email to acquire tickets.
Enjoy A Christmas Carol on your screen, wherever you are, as part of our virtual Fall 2020 season.
Okay, ready to play?
All you have to do is post this article THREE TIMES to social media--Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest-wherever your friends hang out. Then, go to our Facebook page and share a funny gif showing us HOW MUCH YOUR FAMILY NEEDS A LITTLE CHRISTMAS right now!
That's it! We'll use random.org to choose a winner. The winning family will be notified on Facebook by December 4.
Good luck, everybody!
