A Steampunk Christmas Carol was exhibited on Sunday December 6th, by Pendulum Space. It was a professional show that added a new twist on the classic “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. The play incorporated the storyline of the classic “Christmas Carol” with a steampunk twist that referenced Nikola Tesla and portrayed Scrooge as a counting house mogul who also deals in mechanical bits and pieces. The story also incorporates elements of the classic “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley in one of the acts, adding to the darker elements of the play.
Interestingly enough, the original script for this play was written to be performed by the companies special needs children 's group, and the staging of the characters represented that idea well, without seeming adapted or overly obvious. For example, one of two narrators for the show is X2, an android, who is initially wheeled into the first scene using an industrial dolly, playing on the steampunk theme of the show while also seamlessly weaving in the child’s disability, this is just one instance of several that was only notable if you knew to look. In addition to that, the play was adapted very easily for the …show more content…
The entire studio was painted black, in traditional black box style, and the audience was onstage, so all the reactions of the actors were heard with extreme clarity, which served to heighten/maintain interest. Similarly, because the audience was onstage, they were given the chance to see the emotions flit across the actors faces as each scene played out. By limiting the amount of sound effects to those made by the actors, with slight music near the beginning, the director successfully made the fantastical world of Dickens and Steampunk seem everyday and
Interestingly enough, the original script for this play was written to be performed by the companies special needs children 's group, and the staging of the characters represented that idea well, without seeming adapted or overly obvious. For example, one of two narrators for the show is X2, an android, who is initially wheeled into the first scene using an industrial dolly, playing on the steampunk theme of the show while also seamlessly weaving in the child’s disability, this is just one instance of several that was only notable if you knew to look. In addition to that, the play was adapted very easily for the …show more content…
The entire studio was painted black, in traditional black box style, and the audience was onstage, so all the reactions of the actors were heard with extreme clarity, which served to heighten/maintain interest. Similarly, because the audience was onstage, they were given the chance to see the emotions flit across the actors faces as each scene played out. By limiting the amount of sound effects to those made by the actors, with slight music near the beginning, the director successfully made the fantastical world of Dickens and Steampunk seem everyday and