The Lethbridge Shakespeare Performance Society got into the Christmas spirit, Friday, Dec. 20 at casa with the fourth annual Shakespeare Meets Dickens. 
The Lethbridge Shakespeare Performance Society board members, as well as familiar faces from this summer’s production of MacBeth, plus John Poulsen, who will be directing the Merry Wives of Windsor next summer, performed a thrilling reader’s theatre version of Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol.
The cast in including Bryson Brown, Linde Bruce Brown, Shelly David, Cole Fetting, Megan Fennell, Kaylee Johnson, Trevor Loman, Keith Miller, Shelly Scott John Poulsen and Ashley Thomson were dressed in period costumes as they played a variety of characters, standing up to read their parts.
After a Christmas Carol, amongst colourfully decorated tables filled with Christmas treats and a candy bar, there was plenty of singing as performers including Newsies star Nicole Furlan, and familiar faces like Megan Wittig, Monica Baczuk, Brenton Taylor, Stephanie Savage and Chris Kyle Taylor all sang their favourite Christmas themed songs.
There were a couple of great dramatic scenes interspersed between the songs.
Jeff Graham and Keith miller revisited their popular Porter’s scene from the summer production of Macbeth.
And Andrew Legg returned to the stage with Mark Leiren-Young’s hilarious monologue called “Stage Manager’s Nightmare,” in which he had fun with all of the fatalities in Shakespeare’s tragedies, particularly Titus Andron
icus.
I left midway through the second half to catch a few other gigs, so missed Lyle and Friends performing Hey Mr. Snowman.
