Day 36: It's Christmas!

It's Christmas, and a Christmas can't be without A Christmas Carol in Princeton. It's a tradition for more than 10 years now in Princeton, to hold the play of Charles Dickens' a Christmas Carol in the McCarter theatre during the Christmas season. Everyone I encountered here said good words about it and highly recommended me to see it. Before, I used to think that theatres were dying nowadays with movies, tv, and internet being so aggressive and intruding. Nobody was going to spend 100 bucks to just watch a play, thus I thought. But after seeing the a Christmas carol, I found that plays were so much richer than anything else. Being able to sit in the theatre, I could really sense the actors and their roles. I was so drawn by the actors' performance that I almost felt I was part of the story. And I was so much moved by the scenes that can be at most moderate if it appeared in a movie or TV. But it happened right in front of me, and it seemed so real. The staging was also amazing, with a lot of special effects that only contributed to draw me further inside. Being an art of vision and hearing, maybe the theatre experience can touch the sixth sense?