[SOLD OUT] Drinking with Dickens

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• This event is 21+ only.
• This is an in-person program at The Rosenbach Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email [email protected].
• Registration opens for Delancey Society on August 16, for Rosenbach members on August 23, and for the general public on August 30. 

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Description

Welcome in the Christmas season by celebrating the way Charles Dickens did, with good fellowship, music, and punch! The conviviality of the Dickensian world is nowhere more apparent than in Dickens’s Christmas books and stories. From Mr. Pickwick celebrating at Dingley Dell to Scrooge offering Bob Cratchit a talk over a bowl of smoking bishop, Dickens knew that Christmas “was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness.” Dickens, himself, always celebrated the holiday with parties, feasting, games, and a brimming bowl of punch.  

We’ll begin the evening with punch made from the author’s own recipe, then listen to a reading from A Christmas Carol by Mr. Dickens, as portrayed by Brian McCann. Wearing your finest Victorian clothing is welcomed (but not required). 

About the Performer

Brian McCann began his love of all things Dickens at the age of 10, by not only reading the novels but by being cast in the perennial favorite, A Christmas Carol. McCann has gone on to act in 22 different productions of this Christmas classic. He has played the lawyer Jaggers from Great Expectations at the Arden Theater Company, to critical acclaim. He has twice played Charles Dickens for the Lantern Theater Company and their two productions of “The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens & Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord.” Mr. McCann has also presented as Charles Dickens for numerous tours and speaking engagements in and around Philadelphia.