Ole Miss students who were trying to get into the holiday spirit, ended their search with the perfect launch into the season. One of the Christmas classic’s, A Christmas Carol, has opened on Thursday night right here on our very own campus! The Ole Miss Theater department prepared for this timeless classic in unique ways. The characters made sure they transformed into these classic characters to convince us that were there with Scrooge himself flying with the ghost of the past, present, and the future.
The excitement of the play not only came from the love of this play or the Christmas season itself, but also from the star-cast role of the main character. Us students, who have taken Theater 101 with Rory Ledbetter, were pleased to hear the rumors that the role of Scrooge was to be performed by our enchanting old professor.
“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice,” the Charles Dicken’s book read.
When preparing for the character, Rory had to in body this character and convert his usually jolly heart into an ice box. He said to really get inside the head of Scrooge it was all about “putting myself in the mindset if nobody loves me, and if people have abandoned me, and if I view the world in the capacity of everyone’s out to get me or everyone is trying to take advantage of me, I won’t let anybody in.” From a jolly smile, to a broken-hearted frozen grouchy face, Rory was beyond ready for the star role.
So let the Christmas season in as the Ole Miss Theater shows us what the Holidays are truly about! “Be thankful for what you have! And always show love to people, because you never know what they are really going through.” said Elizabeth Hollomon, one of the actresses who took on several of the roles in A Christmas Carol. As expected, A Christmas Carol was the perfect solution to kick of this holiday season.
Works Cited: http://www.stormfax.com/1dickens.htm
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