Canadian Stage welcomes internationally acclaimed and multi-award-winning puppeteer Ronnie Burkett and The Daisy Theatre gang to the Berkeley Street Theatre, for LITTLE DICKENS.

Making its Toronto premiere beginning November 23rd, LITTLE DICKENS is an outrageously irreverent cabaret-style re-telling of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic A Christmas Carol, as only Ronnie Burkett can tell it; a marionette vaudeville mash-up of beautifully handcrafted characters, seasonal singalongs, cabaret renditions of beloved standards, and free-wheeling improvisation.

In this ‘adults only’ re-imagining, reserved for audiences over sixteen, The Daisy Theatre’s Esmé Massengill is Esmé Scrooge, a fading actress wallowing in spiteful self-pity and a tart tyrant who viciously berates her mild-mannered backstage assistant, Bob Cratchit. She’s visited by several well-meaning relatives, including a tofurkey-chowing millennial and two crusty old thespians looking for some arts funding. With the ever-changing content and nightly improv, each performance will be different, daring and on the edge.