'Christmas Carol' Reading at Library
Master storyteller Robb Dimmick to present dramatic reading of 'A Christmas Carol' Sunday afternoon at Barrington library.
Barrington community services librarian Amy Greer submitted this article.
Master storyteller Robb Dimmick brings his dramatic reading of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” to the Barrington library on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 11. It starts at 2 pm.
Dimmick’s family-friendly dramatic reading has enthralled audiences throughout New England for nearly three decades. Through his mastery of voices, Dimmick brings to life the tightfisted Scrooge, the merry Fezziwig, the gracious ghost of Christmas Past, and a score of other glorious characters.
This event is free and open to all.
Dimmick is a professional actor, director, and playwright and co-producer of the award-winning Educational Theatre Collaborative based at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.
He has taught master classes in musical theatre styles, auditioning techniques and cabaret at Brown University, Plymouth State, the Providence Performing Arts Center, and other sites throughout New England.
He is co-founder of Jazz is a Rainbow, a vocal performance project based in Providence that teaches the jazz songbook to urban youth. He is the artistic director for Building Bridges in Lynn, Mass.
A talented artist and designer with a strong bibliophilic background, Dimmick has the unique distinction of being a guest curator at Brown University’s prominent John Hay Library. He is currently curator of a six month-long exhibit of African American food in Rhode Island at Johnson and Wales’ state-of-the-art Culinary Arts Museum, the first exhibit of its kind in the nation to examine Black foodways from the 1700s forward.