23 times a Scrooge and no 2 the same Stephen Hair's ever evolving role in A Christmas Carol
Channel: Celebrity News
Date: 2016-12-09

23 times a Scrooge and no 2 the same: Stephen Hair's ever-evolving role in A Christmas Carol.

'It's a huge responsibility and a huge gift,' says actor.
For 23 years in a row, Stephen Hair has taken centre stage as the embittered old miser Ebenezer Scrooge in Theatre Calgary's production of A Christmas Carol. 
Where most actors get three weeks to turn scripted lines and stage directions into a living character, Hair has had 23 years to breathe life into this particular Christmas-hating moneylender. 
Rather than recreate the same character year after year, Hair has made it a personal mission to enrich and re-imagine Scrooge, the cold-hearted grouch who by play's end comes to embody the kindness and generosity of the Christmas spirit. 
"There's a real story there. A real human being," Hair, now 66, said.
"That's what we're trying to find as we inch forward year by year, is to find the humanity in the person," he explained.