Inspecting Carol at The Newport Theater Arts Center

This play is about a small professional theatre company in a midsized city. This company has performed the same play, “A Christmas Carol”, to the same community, with the same actors, for far too long. The company strives to maintain funding even as they receive financial cuts. They learn that they will be inspected in order to receive a grant, which they need in order to remain open. They fall all over themselves trying to schmooze the man they believe to be the person responsible for issuing the grant. As more and more things go wrong, the company tries to deal with each other while getting through the show.