The Pride Collective and Community Center presents:
“Merry Christmas, Carol” by Em Christie
inspired by “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
Event type: staged reading
Venue: FMCT at the Hjemkomst Center
Date: December 10, 2025
Time: 7 p.m.
Cost: Free/Free-will donation/NOTAFLOF
Synopsis: Carol is a rich lesbian who owns multiple rental properties and donates to all the right charities, yet she would never give a cent to someone on the street, and she fails to understand or accept her dead sister’s nonbinary offspring. Carol’s assistant, Bobbi, has a chronically ill child, but Carol doesn’t see how directly connected she is to this child’s quality of life. On Christmas Eve, Carol’s deceased wife Marley appears to announce three spirits will try to help Carol change her ways, foreshadowing disastrous consequences should she fail to do so. This is the Christmas Carol 2025 needs as society debates who “deserves” which human rights.
Content warning: Transphobia, alcoholism, drunken car accident resulting in death, abortion, discrimination against unhoused persons, child illness, child death
PLEASE NOTE:
Tickets will be AT DOOR ONLY. Card and cash donations are most welcome but are *not required.* No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
This show is 90 minutes with no intermission.
As this script is still in development, there will be an audience feedback session immediately following the reading.
Local organizations will be in the lobby before and after the show so you can find opportunities to get involved in helping our community improve!
Sponsor: Bridgeview Liquors (playwright is Artist in Residence at Bridgeview)
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