{"id":21911,"date":"2021-12-07T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21911"},"modified":"2021-12-07T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:49:17","slug":"a-christmas-carol-at-blue-bridge-keeps-tradition-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/12\/07\/a-christmas-carol-at-blue-bridge-keeps-tradition-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Carol<\/em> at Blue Bridge keeps tradition alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month at Blue Bridge Theatre, the world-renowned Victorian-era Christmas story A Christmas Carol<\/em> will be told in the same fashion that it was originally presented: with one actor playing the cast of over 20 characters. But actor Sanjay Talwar is no stranger to taking on a role where he plays multiple people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually did a play called Helen\u2019s Necklace<\/em> where I played five different characters,\u201d says Talwar. \u201cThe way that worked was there was one person playing the main character and I basically played everyone else. I don\u2019t have anybody to lean on when I make mistakes, and it can get lonely in the dressing room. But it\u2019s just a different kind of experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s a rewarding experience at that. Talwar was attracted to this role because of his longtime fondness of A Christmas Carol<\/em>; he views it as a testament to true theatre.<\/p>\n

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Actor Sanjay Talwar in A Christmas Carol<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI knew the story from when I was very little, and I had performed in the play playing one character before,\u201d he says. \u201cHaving played more than one character in a play with lots of actors, this just seemed like a totally different talent, something that was really fascinating. It just goes back to real basics of theatre, which is storytelling, and seeing if you can tell a story for a period of time and keep people with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

After having livestreamed the play last year, Talwar is most excited about being back in the presence of a live audience. He was in the middle of a two-week rehearsal when he spoke to Nexus, and he’s eager to get back to the theatre for the show\u2019s first live performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe audience is such a major character in every play that it was interesting doing the play without that character, and so it\u2019ll be interesting to see what that character does to the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

The story\u2019s timeline spans over the course of Ebenezer Scrooge\u2019s life; Talwar appreciates how it\u2019s easy to empathize with the character.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people have different kinds of reactions to the character depending on where they are in their life,\u201d he says. \u201cI know I had a different reaction to the story when I was a child versus when I was an adult versus when I was, you know, relatively up there in years. You have a different perspective. As Scrooge walks through the various ages of his life, I think everybody can identify with a different one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talwar says he’s looking forward to the reopening of live theatre in Canada. Everyone was impacted in different ways by the isolation of the last year, but one thing it seems to have reinforced in people is the importance of communal experiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting time to go back and revisit the experience of live performance, of things that you can\u2019t get from the movies, or from television. It’s not that one’s better than the other, it’s just different, and the experience and the contact of live theatre is something that I think we don\u2019t even realize how much we missed it until we go back to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talwar\u2014who admits that he was surprised at how emotional it was to return to the theatre and discover just how much he missed it\u2014says that he admires Blue Bridge’s devotion to the tradition of theatre.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlue Bridge has been really wonderful about keeping things going in a real Canadian theatrical tradition, so it\u2019s just a bunch of artists coming together and working on telling a story.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Christmas Carol<\/em>
\nVarious times, Tuesday, December 7 to Sunday, December 19
\nVarious prices, Blue Bridge Theatre
\nbluebridgetheatre.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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