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Totem Pole Playhouse, in association with Gettysburg Community Theatre, will once
again bring its original adaptation of the Charles Dickens’ holiday classic A Christmas
Carol to the stage of Gettysburg College’s Majestic Theater this December 8-
A Christmas Carol is an original adaptation by Totem Pole Playhouse Producing Artistic
Director Rowan Joseph, who directs the show. Much of the text and dialogue is preserved
verbatim from the original novel by Charles Dickens, restoring many of the Christian
references left out of other versions. “One of the aspects that sets this production
apart from others is that we’ve added back into the text of the play Dickens’ original
focus on the birth of the baby Jesus and Christian charity as the dominate theme
of Scrooge’s redemptive journey. Most other modern adaptations tend to secularize
these passages from the story, placing it in the same category as stories of Rudolph
or Frosty,” Joseph said, “but that’s not where it belongs. To quote Stephen Skelton,
author of the book, A Christmas Carol: Special Church Edition, ‘In the first place,
with Charles Dickens, you’re dealing with a self-