{"id":19255,"date":"2023-08-03T00:21:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T00:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=19255"},"modified":"2025-01-18T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T17:34:09","slug":"adams-gifts-a-play-for-the-holidays-or-any-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=19255","title":{"rendered":"Adam’s Gifts \u2022 A Play for the Holidays or Any Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

ADAM\u2019S GIFTS by Peter Filichia<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

In a seasonal riff on Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol<\/i>,’\u00a0Adam’s Gifts<\/i> is a story of redemption and the heart-melting surprise of feeling needed. As our modern economy requires tightening our belts, so it is with modern ghosts \u2014 only one can be assigned per needy subject due to the vast numbers of people who need their \u2018help.\u2019 Our ghost, Glynis, sure has her work cut out for her with the completely illiterate William Pront, who makes Ebenezer Scrooge look like Mother Teresa. We see William as a boy (the son of an abusive father who sold him to the mob); then a visit to the only girl he ever loved, who tried to instill in William a love for the Arts. A memory-scene with his harsh father sobers him, as does one to his under-appreciated assistant, Jason\u2019s ex-wife and son, Adam, who has a rare and fatal cancer which continues to shatter William, as he sees some of himself in the bed-ridden child. As a bond develops, Adam discovers William\u2019s inability to read and write and sets about teaching him those skills. Glynis informs William of a new cancer treatment program. William writes a letter with his new-found and formerly unappreciated skills, that gets Adam admitted to that program. Glynis also shows William what would have happened had he not changed: Jason would have written a book about how miserable a man he was, and it would become so well-known that \u201cPront\u201d would replace \u201cScrooge\u201d as an idiom for stinginess. At the end of the play, we\u2019re not sure if Adam will beat the illness, but we are certain that William has completely turned himself around \u2014 thanks to the arts that have taught him to appreciate the finer things in life, and one special boy. <\/i><\/p>\n

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