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A Red Carol, An Activist Adaptation of the Dickens Classic


  • Z SPACE, Steindler Stage 450 Florida Street San Francisco, CA, 94110 United States (map)

Based on the novel "A Christmas Carol" By Charles Dickens

Adapted for the stage and Directed by Michael Gene Sullivan

Six people,

telling the story, 

playing all the roles,

in an abandoned industrial space.​

This isn't your average, feel-good Christmas tale.

But it was never supposed to be.​

We all know the story: The redemption of a cranky miser at Christmas, a ghost story designed to let an audience feel good about themselves for not being heartless.

But Charles Dickens wasn't trying to make people feel good, he was trying to show them a stark reality, scaring them into being more human. He wrote "A Christmas Carol" to shake up society, and with "A Red Carol" we are re-establishing his story as the revolutionary call-to-action he  intended.

With music, joy, and plenty of harsh truths about his time and ours, "A Red Carol" is the demand for economic and social justice Dickens wanted then, and we need now.

Earlier Event: December 14
Make Pompoms Together at Winter Wonderland
Later Event: December 15
Family Walk: Indian Tree