Dallas Theater Center’s ‘A Christmas Carol.’ (Courtesy photos) REVIEW: No humbuggery in DTC’s ‘Christmas Carol’ Raphael Parry as Ebenezer Scrooge in DTC’s ‘A Christmas Carol.’ With its steampunk attitude and dark ambience, the Christmas cheer is a bit low-key in this year’s annual production of A Christmas Carol by the Dallas Theater Center.
And thank goodness. Director Christi Vela’s vision of a more bleak and dusty world set in Victorian England is ironically refreshing and inviting into what is an equally dark story – until it isn’t.
Upon walking into the Wyly, the imposing stage covered much of the theater’s interior real estate. Actors walked in from every imaginable entrance and performed from each corner that kept the audience’s