New Performance by Farm Arts Collective Features Famous Dickensian Characters

Miss Havisham, The Artful Dodger, Scrooge, The Ghost of Christmas Past.

Farm Arts Collective is debuting a new short work featuring these famous characters and others from Charles Dickens novels at the annual “Dickens on the Delaware” town wide celebration in the Hamlet of Callicoon, NY on December 14.

It’s called “The Fezziwig Party” and it incorporates themes like social inequality and a call for compassion that are prevalent in Dickens’ writing.

Tannis Kowalchuk is the Artistic Director of Farm Arts Collective and the director of “The Fezziwig Party” and spoke about how the company crafted the musical play collectively through improvisation and scene proposals.

Image: To create the play, each Farm Arts Collective company member chose a favorite Dickens character and then brought them to the Fezziwig Party. (Credit: Farm Arts Collective)