Centaur+ Play Club

A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens Adapted by Geoffrey Simon Brown

Join us Wednesday, December 18th at 7pm for this season’s second Play Club session

For our second installment of the Centaur + Play Club of the season, we will be getting into the holiday spirit and coming together to read-along a beloved classic, adapted by young Canadian playwright Geoffrey Simon Brown. Our play club members, along with a few members of the local theatre community, will bring to life this over twenty-character play. 
You can find a link to play below, and come ready to read aloud this haunting and heart-warming tale!  

A holiday tradition

On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three spirits, who take him on a journey into his past, present, and future to show him the errors of his ways. Dickens’ classic holiday tale comes alive in this new adaptation, currently onstage at Theatre Calgary in Alberta. See why A Christmas Carol  has become a holiday tradition for so many theatre-goers worldwide.  

Playwright’s bio:
Geoffrey Simon Brown

Geoffrey is an Alberta based playwright, performer, director, and musician. 

In 2010 he helped found the Major Matt Mason Collective, a performance company dedicated to creating visceral, intimate, experimental, small-scale theatre about and for Alberta’s younger generations. He is Co-Artistic Director of the collective and has worked on all of their productions as both an artist and producer, including directing their production of Premium Content by David Gagnon Walker and scripting their devised production of Little Red (with Ghost River Theatre). He has also served as the director of collective’s Wildfire National Playwriting Competition since 2015. 

His plays include Progress, Michael Mysterious, Night, Time, Still Still Still, Control, Air, Destroy, The Circle (which was published by Scirocco Drama in 2017), and the most recent adaptation(s) of A Christmas Carol for Theatre Calgary. Geoffrey was the creator-in-residence at Theatre Junction GRAND from 2016-2018, leading their mentorship program and creating the play If I Could Tell You Everything with an ensemble of Calgary teenagers. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s playwriting program.