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In First Flight Theatre Company's upcoming lively production of

Dickens Presents A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens along with his family and

the renowned British thespian William Macready

stage a performance of his beloved Christmas tale

at the Hermitage on

December 14, 15, 21 & 22, 2024,

Saturdays at 7pm and Sundays at 3pm

Everyone is invited!

Directed and adapted by Hermitage regular Frank Farrell,

Dickens Presents A Christmas Carol

is a re-titled adaptation of a play that was successfully staged at

the Hermitage Museum in its earliest years

and ran for several holiday seasons.

Charles Dickens plays the Narrator and the Spirits of Christmas Past and Present.

He is joined by his daughters, sons, nieces and nephews who play the rest of the roles in the story

along with Macready playing Scrooge in this holiday favorite.

This is First Flight Theatre Company's fifth production at the Hermitage of this Christmas classic.

 

The Hermitage, 335 N. Franklin Turnpike, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ  07423

(201) 445-8311    Tickets $35 at http:/www.thehermitage.org/events




 
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Who We Are

First Flight Theatre Company was incorporated as a 501c3 not-for-profit theatre company in November 2019. 

PICTURE US!

Photos below from VALLEY FORGE (2022), and LITTLE WOMEN, MINA and DICKENS BY CANDLELIGHT: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2023).

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Photos from Past Productions THE SCARECROW, and SATURDAY'S CHILDREN, followed by a Zoom video of the Prologue of Maxwell Anderson's 1923 Broadway play WHITE DESERT from our Zoom production in 2021 featuring Zander Kirby and Charlie Gillette. Toward the bottom is our BLOG section featuring full programs from our past productions.

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The Cast of The Scarecrow at
The Hermitage

David Green, Lynn Manuell, 

Alexa Elmy, Zander Kirby, 

Charles Kennedy, 

Julio Ramon, Richard Width, 

Maddie Kirby and Frank Farrell

Maxwell Anderson's SATURDAY'S CHILDREN in Chicago 2023

Kevin Blair and Alexandra Jaymes as Rims and Bobby.

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SATURDAY'S CHILDREN in NYC 2023

Danny Crawford and Haley Karlich

as Rims and Bobby.

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WHITE DESERT Prologue 2021
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WHITE DESERT Prologue 2021

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WHITE DESERT Prologue 2021

BLOGS of Past Programs

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Photo from First Flight's 2022 production featuring Jennifer Kim and audience members.

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WHAT'S IN A NAME

Where did the name First Fight Theatre Company come from? Pictured is a postage stamp called "First Flight Wright Brothers 1903." It's a cool stamp! But the company was not named after the Wright Brothers flight. It was named after Maxwell Anderson's third Broadway production called First Flight, about young Andrew Jackson when he was a frontier lawyer and how he was trying to convince the soon to be West Virginia territory to become part of the United States of America. Our company is devoted to producing plays by Maxwell Anderson, specifically poetic dramas where poetry is part and parcel of the language spoken in the play. First Flight is a good name for a company with that poetic theatre agenda.

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