Dickens RAW: A Christmas Carol

Name: Dickens RAW: A Christmas Carol
Start: 2025-12-15T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-12-15T22:00:00-06:00
Location: Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery

Schedule

Mon Dec 15 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery | Milwaukee, WI

"If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."
Come on, don't be such a Scroo- Hey! Is that where that comes from?
MERRY CHRISTMAS BARDFLIES! Yes, we're stepping outside of our usual MO and applying our delightful shenanigans to that beloved holiday classic, "A Christmas Carol". But, we are still us, so we will be doing it in the "RAW" style you also know and love.
How does it work? I'm glad you asked.
A group of actors arrive the day of the show having read (I sincerely hope) the script so they are at least passingly familiar with the text. Then, they pull a character name from a bucket to learn who they will be playing that night. They then have approximately 10 minutes to get into character and get ready for their first scene. And the next one. And the one after that. You get the idea.
"But I'm not familiar with the story" you say. Well, first, how? Second, here's the gist:
During the Victorian era, stingy and cranky Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates Christmas, loses his partner Marley on Christmas Eve. For seven years, he runs his business exploiting his employee Bob Cratchit, and spends a bitter treatment on his family and acquaintances. However, on that particular Christmas Eve he is visited by the doomed ghost of Marley who reveals that three spirits will visit him that night. The first one, the spirit of past Christmas, recalls his miserable youth; the spirit of the present Christmas shows him the poor situation of Bob's family; and the spirit of future Christmas shows his fate.
The question is, can he or is he willing to change?
The location? Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery! Yes, there's no place like home for the holidays.
You'll have three opportunities to catch this spectacle, December 15th, 16th, and 17th. Yes, that is a Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Doors open at 7PM with the show expected to start at 7:30. That timing mostly depends on when the line at the bar settles down.
Admission to this show is 100% Free. Consider it a Christmas gift to you, the audience. We will still be passing the hat, but it's not for us. As this is the season of giving, all the money collected will go to a charity. This year the money is going to the CVI - The Center for Veterans Issues. They work to house and support veterans. For more information on their work, their website is cvivet.org.
Please note! We will NOT be set up to accept donations of physical items like blankets or clothes or anything like that. We know how to take cash and hand it to the charity. Thank you!
"And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!"