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…three actors walk in with music stands…  “Hi, we’re here to perform A  Christmas Carol . Where would you like us?” And over by the Christmas tree, in a corner of your living room, as the party gets into full swing, they act, speak and sing a thirty-eight minute version of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas ghost story, with carols,  music, and some of Charles Dickens’ most famous and best-beloved words.

This Boise – and environs – holiday tradition began with a handful of Idaho Shakespeare Festival actors, back in the 1980’s. Over the years it grew to a seasonal fixture at the Egyptian, the College of Idaho, and all points round the Treasure Valley. After a ten year hiatus, we are back, with some fresh scripts, the old, traditional music, and a company built around one of the Interludes’ most seasoned performers…

Oh, and it costs just a little less than it did, back in the nineties…

Stitch Marker (Welsh Poet, Scrooge, Stubby Pringle)

Stitch has been seen on every  Idaho Shakespeare Festival stage since the patio of Angell’s Bar and Grill  in 1977 (it was the Main Street Bistro back then.)  Last December, he appeared in The Storm in the Barn at Boise Contemporary Theater, and this fall he was featured in Bernhardt/Hamlet in the Alley Rep’s current season. He has toured all kinds of Shakespeare, Beauty and the Beast, Lincoln’s Log… – and many others – to almost every school in Idaho, and he has been in the Christmas Interludes since the get-go back in the nineteen-eighties. For Stitch, “Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas…” he says   “…without  A Christmas Carol…. ”

Jodeen Revere (Welsh Lass, Lady, Cowhand)

Jodeen is a mostly Idaho native and long time Boise actor.  She worked with Boise Contemporary Theater this season  in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,  and previously in productions of The Cripple of Inishmaan and Don DeLillo’s Valparaiso. Her productions with Alley Repertory Theater include Love Person,  Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,   Rapture, Blister, Burn  and Women of a Certain Age. She appeared in HomeGrown Theatre’s How To Hide Your Monster as well as numerous readings that are part of their Blip Series and was an actor in Campfire Theater Festival’s last two seasons. She has appeared in four of Opal Theatre Company’s readings in the last year, most recently playing Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In addition to voice-overs, commercial and film work, she is a Thai massage therapist and a writer. This is her third year being part of the Christmas Interludes and she is pleased to be here.

Peter John Still (Welsh Lad, Gentleman, Cowhand)

Peter wrote the music and, for years, performed in the adaptation of A Christmas Carol that’s been playing for over two decades, now,  in Portland, Maine. If you recall any of those Idaho Shakespeare Festival shows where folks were beating on marching bass-drums with Japanese drumsticks,  Peter was responsible for those.  More recently he designed the sound for The Hound of the BaskervillesA Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas, The Woman in Black, The 39 Steps, Noises Off, The Foreigner and Steel Magnolias. He is also the only Tony nominee in our acting company (for theatrical sound design…) and he is happy still to do the occasional show in  New York…and even London!!! Back home, he specializes in playing music up in the Foothills and in Idaho ghost towns, being generally helpful around Boise Contemporary Theater, and designing his own website (of which he is very proud!)