Dickens' A Christmas Carol Reading at Dalnavert Museum
Walk through Dalnavert House, beautifully decorated for a Victorian Christmas. Listen to seasonal music performers, browse the gift shop and enjoy Dickens' timeless tale of Scrooge's reformation by a trio of ghostly visitors.
Tickets $28 for Adults and $25 for Children.
Call (204) 943 2835 to reserve tickets.
December 18th, 19th and 20th, 2015
Evening Performances Doors Open 6:00 pm.
Christmas Music preshow - 7:30 Performance Start
About Celeste Sansregret
and music videos, working with many distinguished directors including Robert Sherrin, Walter Burgess,
Malcolm Black and the late John Hirsh. Favourite roles included Grandma in Edward Albee's The American
Dream, Katrina in WONDERBAR! and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet for Native Earth Performing Arts. She
is also an award winning writer and a well-regarded solo performer.
Dickens’ beloved tale is considered responsible for re-popularizing Christmas in England. His
impoverished childhood left him with great sympathy for the plight of the less fortunate and he was an avid
social reformer. The beloved story of the reform of a miser into a generous and kind person fit both the
season and Dickens’ politics. Dickens himself did many public readings of the story and eared more money
performing it than he did publishing it. He was the most famous and eminent novelist of his day, but his
public readings were what brought him to the pinnacle of his fame and fortune.
Ellen Terry came from a Scots-Irish family of actors. She began performing at age 3! and spent more
than 50 years gracing the stage and then making films. She was particularly famous for her portrayals of
the major women’s roles in Shakespeare. She was the muse of many painters of the Romantic period as
well as of the great playwright, George Bernard Shaw with whom she had a correspondence of over 3000
letters. She is interred in a silver chalice in the Actors’ Chapel in St Paul’s in London.
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