Christmas in the Heart "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

Begin your holiday season with Shakespeare on Main Street’s as they present this timeless holiday classic in intimate Storytime style in Brandon. Two performances will be on Saturday, December 10 at 2:00 pm and 7:30pm, at Brandon Town Hall Theatre, 1 Conant Square, Brandon. In A Christmas Carol, Dickens explores the morality of the love of money over the love of family and people. Scrooge sees the way his life has slipped into a basically unhappy and lonely old age where he has lost the possibility of love and friendship. This holiday masterwork is a story of compassion, forgiveness and redemption.

Director Gary Meitrott adapts Readers Theater style to include costuming and movement by the actors, adding a dramatic element to the performance. With simple, yet elegant, Victorian furniture and costuming, five actors bring all the characters to life using Dickens’ original words. It’s like a storybook come to life. Meitrott, a lover of classic literature and founder of SoMS, says, “Even though we are all connected electronically, we are also isolated as individuals. A Christmas Carol rings truer than ever in its lesson to give and to love with every moment we have.” The cast features Virginia Bones, Oisin Harrington, David Kiefner, Eric Korzun, and Jonathan White. Tickets are $15 Adults, $9 Youth, Children Under 10 Free. To purchase advance tickets, visit Carr’s Florist.

Shakespeare on Main Street is a non-profit (501c3) organization dedicated to bringing the elevated vivaciousness of Shakespeare and other authors to Vermont and upstate New York audiences. We depend largely on public donations to stage our productions. www.ShakespeareOnMainStreet.org.