The Mail Tribune: South Oregon’s news source reported on December 12 that a new production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, performing at Oregon Stage Works until December 30, is a clean and warm reworking of the original. Special note was made of the scenic backdrops.
“...Scrooge's old school and Fezziwig's warehouse by having the ghosts simply whisk Scrooge around the OSW's nearly bare stage, which is essentially a thrust inside a black box, here dominated by Charles Couraud's amazing, giant painted backdrop of Dickensian London, about which, a word.
"Looks Chagall-ish," one theatergoer said, referring to the fantastical-joyous Yiddish-Russian artist (who did, incidentally, create murals for theaters). Couraud's impressionistic London is a panorama of buildings scattered pell-mell under a sky that looks like "Starry Night"-era Van Gogh.”
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091212/NEWS/912120314
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