Phil ZachariahVictoria Hall, Fremantle
December 22 – 23, 2014
Let me spend 32 words, and take a precious moment of your Christmas Eve, to look into a London grocer with Ebenezer Scrooge on this very day, 171 years ago:
“There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by…”
Say what you like about him, Charles Dickens could write like his infernal namesake. Perhaps only two writers before him, and only one since, match his mastery of English and the emotional and polemic potential it harbours.
So the Melbourne actor Phil Zachariah performs us all a service with his long-running one-man-show Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, purportedly a reading by the author of his glorious Yuletide parable.
