"Dickens' timeless tale comes to thrilling new life as Mays plays over 50 roles in a performance he calls theater in its purest form. Known for his work across television, film, and theater, Mays is celebrated for his Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning performances on Broadway (I Am My Own Wife, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder). This show was co-adapted by Mays, Susan Lyons and Michael Arden and is directed by Barry Edelstein."
"He asked, Is there anything you'd like to do? I said, I've always imagined doing a one-person version of A Christmas Carol. Matt said, Great, let's do it. So I spent the rest of the year through that summer with my wife, adapting it from Dickens. I just wanted to do this with a table and a chair and nothing else."
"No soundscape, nothing. I wanted to be the special effect. In 2018, we had the first showing of it. It was quite different from how I imagined it. We had this extraordinary design team who brought to bear all their theatrical magic on this. I was, I must confess, resistant at first, because it was this phantasmagorical production. In 2022, it had a limited run on Broadway."
Jefferson Mays performs a one-man adaptation of A Christmas Carol in which he portrays over 50 roles. The adaptation was co-created with Susan Lyons and Michael Arden and directed by Barry Edelstein. Mays initially conceived the piece after meeting Matt Shakman and pursued a minimalist approach using only a table and chair so that his performance would serve as the primary special effect. The piece premiered in 2018 with an elaborate design that temporarily shifted away from Mays’s original vision. A limited Broadway run occurred in 2022, followed by efforts to realize a more intimate staging in a round theater.
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