Doctor Marigold by Charles Dickens
Dec 22, 2024 7:00PM
Location
Park Theater, 723 Warren Street, Hudson, NY
Cost Donations welcome!
Event Contact Park Theater Hudson | Email
Categories Eastern Region US, Performance, Time-Arts
PERFORMED BY JOHN McMANUS, DIRECTED BY SHAE D’LYN, PRESENTED BY WINGED MONKEYS
Friday, December 13, 2024, at 7:00 pm
Sunday, December 15, 2024, at 3:00 pm
Sunday, December 22, 2024, at 3:00 pm
At Park Theater, 723 Warren Street, Hudson, NY
Doctor Marigold is the last of the Christmas numbers compiled by Charles Dickens at the height of his career in 1865. The story, derived by Dickens for his public readings, immerses the listener in the language, customs, and everyday realities of the life and times of the common people of Dickensian England. This extraordinarily complex and profoundly stirring story is about the life of a cheap jack, a man who sells household wares from the footboard of his cart. In his life’s fateful journey, he slowly discovers that all of the marvelous characters he meets, however weak or unjust they may seem, have given him great gifts. At last, he reaches “a greater height of popularity than ever at the cheap jack work” and, as he eats his “beefsteak pudding for one,” he has no expectations for this solitary Christmas Day.