You and your family won’t want to miss this unforgettable take on the most famous holiday tale of all time, told through the colorful and creative lens of innovative puppet company Manual Cinema. The Moss Arts Center presents two showings of Manual Cinema's “Christmas Carol,” a live streaming adaptation of Charles Dickens' holiday classic created specifically for the 2020 holiday season, on Friday, December 11, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, December 13, at 4 p.m.
Created for audiences of all ages, each show will be live-streamed from the innovative performance collective’s Chicago studio directly to your home. In signature Manual Cinema fashion, hundreds of paper puppets, miniatures, and silhouettes come together with a live original score to imaginatively reinvent this cherished holiday classic.
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 confined apart. 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 cinematic adaptation of Dickens' classic ghost story.
The Emmy Award-winning performance collective, design studio, and film and video production company brings liveliness, ingenuity, and theatricality as it combines handmade shadow puppetry, film, and innovative sound and music to create immersive visual stories for stage and screen.
Tickets for Manual Cinema’s “Christmas Carol” are $15 and give your entire household access to the performance. Tickets can be purchased online at the Moss Arts Center's box office, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday; or by calling 540-231-5300 during box office hours.
Free event - "Behind the Scenes with Manual Cinema"
Go behind the scenes of Manual Cinema's “Christmas Carol” during this all-ages exclusive peek with company members, who reveal how they build and bring to life their new masterpiece. Bring your questions and join the Moss Arts Center on Thursday, December 11 at 12 p.m. for this free event.
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