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Tar River Players prepare for first show

The Daily Southerner John H. Walker The Daily Southerner Wed Oct 24, 2012, 05:07 PM EDT

TARBORO — While the first performance is more than a month away, practices are already under way for The Tar River Players’ first production of the year, “A Christmas Carol,” featuring Dirk Lumbard as Ebenezer Scrooge.

The Players’ eighth season will open Friday, Nov. 30 in McIntyre Auditorium on the campus of Edgecombe Community College. Performances are also scheduled on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1-2, and the following weekend, Dec. 7-8-9. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for seniors, students and groups of 10 or more.

The Tar River Players’ production of “A Christmas Carol” is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic by Michael Baron and tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.

Director Roberta Cashwell said this marks the first time for the Players to repeat a production.

“I don’t know why,” she said prior to a Monday rehearsal. “Perhaps it’s because it was so well-received last year … it was the best attended production we’ve ever done. As to whether we will do it again or not, I can’t say … I don’t know that it will become our landmark holiday production.”

In addition to changes in the cast — Dirk Lumbard is playing Scrooge this year — there are other subtle nuances in the version selected by Cashwell.

“I must have looked at eight adaptations,” she said. “I really like the one we will be doing.”

Cashwell said the first 15 minutes or so of the play will have the cast interacting with the audience, as if they were in a marketplace.

“I think everyone will enjoy it,” she said.

Other productions on this year’s schedule include “Oliver!” “Dracula” and “Alice in Wonderland.”

“Oliver!” which was the first musical adaptation of a Dickens work, opens on Friday, Feb. 22 with additional performances on Feb. 23-24 and March 1-2-3. The musical tells the story of an orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.

“Dracula” is adapted from the 1897 Gothic horror story by Irish author Bram Stoker and tells the story of vampire Count Dracula’s attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England and the battle between Dracula and a battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Prof. Abraham Van Helsing.

“Alice in Wonderland” — its actual title is “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland” — was written in 1865 by English author Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. “Alice” tells the story of a young girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar creatures, including the Mad Hatter, White Rabbit, Mock Turtle and Cheshire Cat.

All Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8 p.m. while Sunday matinees begin at 2 p.m. For more information, contact Roberta Cashwell at 823-5166, ext. 218 or cashwellr@edgecombe.ecu.

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