A Xmas Carol Through Mexican Mind
Playwright Juan Antonio Ramos grew tired of watching productions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, growing up in rural Mexico he felt little connection with the characters, he says “I found them too ‘English pudding’ for my tastes” so he imagined what the situation would have been like in his town back in the 19th century. This developed into his own play A Mexican Christmas Carol, a play about the culture in which he was raised which will premier on the main stage of the Western Stage Theater at Hartnell College, Salinas, California.
The playis set in an poor pueblo in central Mexico in the 1800s, it follows the basic premise of Dickens’ novel except that the main characters including, including those representing Scrooge, the ghosts and Bob Cratchit, are all women.
Ramos says: “This
A Xmas Carol Through Mexican Mind
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