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Wynters’ readings brings the story’s characters, Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and the Ghosts of Christmas past, present and future to life, and has the audience in laughter and later on in tears.
In this timeless tale, stingy and cranky Scrooge hates Christmas, loathes people and defends the decrease of the surplus of poor population. He runs his bank by exploiting his employee Bob Cratchit and clients, and gives a bitter treatment to his own nephew and acquaintances. However on Christmas Eve the doomed ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley visits and tells him that three spirits would visit him that night. The ghost of Christmas past recalls his miserable youth when he lost his only love due to his greed; the ghost of Christmas present shows him the poor situation of Bob’s family, and how joyful life may be; and the ghost of Christmas yet to come shows his fate if he does not change.
Wynters began performing plays at the age of 12, while attending an all boys school. His love for theatre continued even as he later attended the University of London, where he became a medical student. Torn between medicine and a theatre career, he decided to do both and since then has juggled his time between the two.
Wynters has appeared in a broad range of roles, both onstage and on television, from the dramatic John Proctor in The Crucible to comedy such as Birdboot in Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound. On TV, he has appeared as Dr. Allan Gamble in the CBC series Country Joy, and produced the feature film Parallels for Group 3 Films. Musical theatre has also been a staple of Wynters’ career, having appeared in many of the great roles such as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Professor Higgins in My fair Lady and Fagin in Oliver!
More recently he has worked as a voice performer on a series of TV documentaries, including “Vancouver Island” and Shakespeare’s Stratford-on-Avon.” Since arriving in Nova Scotia, Jack has played a variety of roles in Haven, based on a Stephen King novel, Cloudburst, November Christmas and Roller Town.
The show begins at the Astor Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 15. Tickets are available at the box office by calling 354-5250.
