Then to begin a similar piece for MGH/Harvard Medical School (HMS) Anesthesia. My immediate post-retirement plans were to complete a chapter for a text on the history of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and The vignettes move into an interior scene in the most fluid transition of the evening.The desire to compile a book describing the history ofthe Department of Anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital dates back to 1994, the year ofmy sixty-fifth birthday as well as my decision to step down from a twenty-five-year tenure as Anesthetist-in-Chief of the MGH Department. The previously mentioned scene between the adult Belle (Laure Schreiner) and her daughter (Daniela Pardiñas) is a splendid counterpoint to the often very large scenes in the play, for example.Īnother is Tiny Tim’s (played by an appropriately heart-wrenching Jack Foley) solo of the 19th Century traditional song, "See Amid the Winter’s Snow", which sets up a splendid set of vignettes that flow into one another as the Ghost of Christmas Present reveals them to Scrooge-miners (Christopher Albrecht, Daniel Andrade, Victor Bonnano-who also plays Fred, Scrooge’s nephew-and Magnus Chan) singing a carol, two lighthouse keepers (Christian Lamour and James Kingston) toasting and wishing each other a Happy Christmas, and a sailor at sea (Joachim Cour) celebrating in solitude.
Tony Kingston’s staging is functional with a few moments that really stand out. The story of course packs an emotional punch no matter how acquainted with or cynical about it one may be and that is the case here. It is a thoughtful and introspective scene and makes for a nice contrast to the overtly broad strokes of much of the piece. Lowery has instead penned an intimate scene, in which Belle relates to her daughter Isabelle the events of the years since the end of the engagement.
In the programme she notes that the original has Belle, the young Scrooge’s fiancée, shown in her home in a scene described by Dickens as “uproarious beyond belief”. The slight liberties Lowery take pay off dramatically and avoid sacrificing the Dickensian essence. This adaptation, by June Lowery, is efficient and literary, keeping the atmosphere and language of Dickens without too many extra frills. As probably everyone knows, the visitations provoke the old skinflint to change his ways.Įfficient, literary, Dickensian adaptation On Christmas Eve Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley (Carl Springer, who also served as Music Director and wrote some of the original music), and then by three spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past (Hayley Dawson), the Ghost of Christmas Present (Andrew Stewart) and the Ghost of Christmas Future (James Kingston). With nearly thirty actors playing over sixty characters, this staging of English literature’s most famous spiritual awakening is a fairly massive production, even by the standards of BGT.ījørn Clasen leads the proceedings as Ebenezer Scrooge, the rich, cruel and stingy businessman who hates everyone and basks in their returned hatred. BGT’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol opened last night at Neimënster.
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