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Elise Esther Hearst. Photo: Eva Otsing

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Elise Esther Hearst on A Very Jewish Christmas Carol

Elise Esther Hearst shares the inspiration behind her and Phillip Kavanagh's decision to adapt Charles Dickens’s classic Christmas morality tale for their NEXT STAGE Original play – A Very Jewish Christmas Carol.