Inside the Episode with Mitch “ The Holiday Show” With special guest, Laurie Jill Strickland creator of Everyone’s Carol From Mitch’s Notebook on the episode: “ Back in the (Analog) day everybody and everyone would do a Christmas timed and themed show of some kind. One of the joys of growing up when I did is seeing what The White Shadow or Eight Is Enough or The Waltons and Family would do for a Christmas show.
Then there were the sometimes outrageous comedy and variety shows of the time with those start studded lineups.
Many artists have been inspired by Christmas and, invariably, have brought their unique concerns and interpretations to the season in their own ways, whether these be an action thriller or family comedy for the big screen or unorthodox reflections on the Life of Jesus on the avant-garde stage. I'd like to think I can be able to gleam something from all of it. Journey Of An Aesthete is a show for our digital age of course, but some things should never change and I can't see why we shouldn't continue to honor this time as always has been done.
For this particular show I am blessed to have a producer who is, among other things, a Charles Dickens scholar and interpreter. Laurie Jill Strickland developed over many years her version of Charles Dicken's , A Christmas Carol in Prose ; being a Ghost Story of Christmas Carol, called Everyone’s Carol.
One of the things you can truly say about it is that it as close as is possible to the heart of Dickens' original text. We are happy to have had her on the show to discuss this in what is a most spontaneous, all but live, Holiday episode of our podcast. And as our podcast is always about what it means to be human, this episode is intended for everybody.”
A little more about Laurie and her body of work: Laurie is an award winning writer, producer , director who creates shows across genres and mediums.
Her production, mentioned in this episode, Everyone’s Carol is a culturally diverse, modern production that has performed all over the globe. Everyone’s Carol also includes a pre show Dickens holiday lobby festival with food, drink, bespoke holiday items, community tables where are all welcome, no matter what they celebrate and a Dickens education unit that serves children in shelters and title one schools with limited artistic opportunities. Everyone’s Carol will next be in Denmark in 2020.
Laurie is the recent recipient of the Jean Louis and Louise Bourgeois artistic grant, Macy’s arts & humanities award, Michelle Obama Arts award and Dickens writing fellowship in France. Some of her recent projects include: Journey of an Aesthete Podcast, Urania, Everyone’s Carol, and Something Higher: The incredible story of Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham.
Laurie coaches and teaches folks about creating their own writing projects, writing for businesses, entrepreneurs and consults on numerous stories in development in film, theatre and television through her company, Laurie’s Stories.
Creating shows, listening to and telling stories is her passion.
Links to a sampling of her work: www.grayceproductions.com www.everyonescarol.com Journey an Aesthete Podcast
