Playwright A. S. Peterson on “A Christmas Carol”
I met A. S. “Pete” Peterson, playwright of the Rabbit Room Theatre’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol at World Vision in Cool Springs, where the organization is allowing the theatre to use their back warehouse as a rehearsal space. Pete gave me a sneak-peek at rehearsal, where about 15 people were running the scene where Scrooge visits his past childhood. The room was full: Victorian costumes hanging on racks, varied antique chairs and trunks and assorted furniture lining the walls of the room. The rehearsal focused on the motion of the scene. After a minute or two in the rehearsal, we stepped out to talk at a table in the lobby with the sound of rehearsal in the background. Grace: I wanted to start off asking you about your background: how did you get into playwriting? I saw on the Rabbit Room website that you have adapted The Hiding Place and Frankenstein, and some other projects as well. Pete: It was an accident. I was a novelist initially. And then Matt Logan, who is directing this show, somebody gave him one of my books and he read it, and was at the moment thinking about adapting the Battle of Franklin.Read More
