Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol

When stay-at-home orders kept folks from seeing theater in-person last year, the interdisciplinary performance collective Manual Cinema crafted this fantastical (and very of-the-moment) virtual adaptation of A Christmas Carol using paper puppets, live performance and video animation set to an original score, garnering acclaim from critics at The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. You can watch the visually arresting story—which centers around a curmudgeonly woman who stages a holiday puppet show through Zoom, to magical effect—when it returns to small screens for on-demand streaming this holiday season.