A CHRISTMAS CAROL by candlelight

Schedule

Sat Dec 14 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

St Giles' Church | Cambridge, EN

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Christmas music and narrated excerpts from Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' come together to create this immersive candlelit experience
About this Event

Immerse yourself in this thoroughly Dickensian Christmas experience, brought to life in candlelight by The City of Cambridge Brass Band and actor/narrator Matt Ray Brown.

Doors open at 7pm for traditional mulled wine and mince pies before Dr Christine Corton, founding member of The Dickens Fellowship in Cambridge, sets the scene with insights into author Charles Dickens, his classic work 'A Christmas Carol' and its influence on how we experience Christmas today. Then, as the lights dim to candlight, allow Charles Dickens himself (actor Matt Ray Brown) to whisk you away into that victorian world with an evening of Christmas music and narrated excerpts from his famous story.

Doors open at 7pm for mulled wine and mince pies. Performance will start at 7.30pm and there will be no interval.

About Matt Ray Brown
Hailing from Cambridge, Matt is an experienced stage and film actor and voiceover artist. His film credits include Christmas in London; Europa, Based on a True Story; Blood Myth; Brothers of War; Aviatrix; Shelter and Angel. Matt’s theatre work includes Julius Caesar (RSC), The Mozart Question (Barn Theatre), Copenhagen (Theatre Royal Bath), Henry V (Barn Theatre), The Inheritance (Noel Coward Theatre), Journey's End (UK tour), 1984 (Playhouse Theatre/American Repertory Theater), Ghosts (Trafalgar Studios), An Enemy of the People (Just Jones&). Matt can currently be seen as Graham in the short film "Express" on C4, directed by Edem Kelman: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/express

About Dr Christine Corton
Dr Corton is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge. She has worked for many years in publishing houses including Hamish Hamilton and Penguin, and was Production Director at Boxtree Books. She is also President of the Dickens Fellowship in Cambridge, a worldwide association of people who share a common interest in the life and works of Charles Dickens. https://dickensfellowship.org/

About The City of Cambridge Brass Band
The City of Cambridge Brass band, has been performing in and around the Cambridgesire area for over 120 years. Over the years the band has enjoyed success on the contest stage, undertaken various recordings and radio broadcasts, performed on television and in high profile concerts. In 2010 the band undertook its first ever performance outside the UK performing in Paris with Parisian brass band Brassage and also in the Parc du Champs de Mars at the foot of the Eiffel tower. Most recently, the band were delighted to placed in the Top 6 at the National Brass Band Finals in Cheltenham in 2024. This in additon to numerous local concerts and programmes of light music in parks, weddings, garden parties and festivals.

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St Giles' Church, Castle Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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