Paris Strickland survived life-threatening cancer and is now celebrating her talent and bright future.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Cancer survivor makes history as 1st female Tiny Tim in Goodman Theatre's 'A Christmas Carol'
Paris Strickland survived life-threatening cancer and is now celebrating her talent and bright future.
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Stories like this are so uplifting to me. I think it is wonderful when life imitates art and gives people the ability to feel fully represented on stage. This reminds me of Mickey Rowe, the first autistic actor to play the lead in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, which is an autistic boy. Hearing his story and how difficult it is for him to work on a show and lead a normal life in general can seem upsetting, but then hearing that he has found a role that matches his life so well is lovely. I think it is important for everyone to be fully represented onstage both in characters and actors. It is nice to see that people can find roles that they relate to so well and are able to bring their personal experiences to in a way that others would simply be incapable of doing.
This is very surprising to me. That this theatre company has been producing A Christmas Carol every year for the past 40 years, and only now are they casting a young female as Tiny Tim. I think it is great that this young actress is getting the opportunity and that she can really connect to the role as her story relates to the characters. But why did it take a child like this to finally have a female play the character? Last winter I worked on A Christmas Carol The Musical, side note - which I think is way better than the play, and it was a young female who played Tim. Nothing had to be changed about the character for a female to play the character, it was an easy casting choice as well because out of the 15 children in the right age ground only one of them was a boy and many of girls were a better fit. I think it is so sad that this company has explored the role with so many ethnicities but never with a girl until now.
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