Posted on 12/16/2011 9:04:36 PM PST by Steelfish
What The Dickens? Occupy Protest Inspires A New 'Christmas Carol' The San Francisco Mime Troupe's resident playwright, Michael Gene Sullivan, has re-imagined the 19th century holiday classic — with its familiar themes of labor unrest, joblessness and starvation — for the troubled 21st century.
By Maria L. La Ganga December 17, 2011 Reporting from San Francisco -- Ebenezer Scrooge is a corporate banker, busy foreclosing on the hapless masses. Bob Cratchit and his beleaguered family live in a chilly tent in an anonymous Occupy encampment. The ghost of Christmas future sports a flowing black robe of taped-together trash bags and plastic sheeting. Tiny Tim dies.
At least that's how the San Francisco Mime Troupe's resident playwright, Michael Gene Sullivan, has re-imagined "A Christmas Carol" for the troubled 21st century.
Truth be told, it wasn't much of a stretch to place Charles Dickens' Victorian classic into today's Occupy world. And that, as Sullivan would be the first to tell you, is exactly the point. Dickens' novella was written in the heart of the "Hungry '40s," a time of labor unrest, unemployment and starvation across 19th century Europe. The gap between rich and poor was wide — and getting ever wider.
The Cratchits as depicted by Dickens "are an example of where most people actually are today," said Sullivan, who has spent the last 23 years with the Tony Award-winning theater group, which specializes in political satire and annoying the powerful.
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The media will still be reporting on these idiots long after they’ve gone home to mom’s basement. Little do they know, it’s helping our cause.
I always thought Old Scratch was the real hero in the whole story.
That’s awful lame.
I back the 99% — I want to see the entertainment industry, including the entertainers themselves, taxed to the tune of 99% of their income. And no public assistance, including taxpayer-funded “grants” to produce their “art”
The fleabaggers are so full of themselves. Wait until Easter. They will have OWS protesters being crucified by corporate lackeys. Pontius Pilatus, thy name is Bush. One can only speculate about the metaphorical Stations of the Cross.
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