Tara Rosling’s annual Christmas performance is celebrating its 10th iteration, with a doubly special performance this year. 

This year’s theatrical rendition of Jeanette Winterson’s “The Mistletoe Bride,” done by TV and stage actress Rosling, will have two separate dinner seatings on Dec. 23. 

Set at Silversmith Brewing Company in Virgil, the reading will follow a three-course meal seasonal menu.

Formerly a pay-what-you-can event, this year’s reading will have tickets available for $100, with $80 of each sale going to support Gillian’s Place in St. Catharines. 

Gillian’s Place provides safe refuge for survivors of abuse and violence and their children. 

“For the 10th anniversary, we’re trying to raise as much awareness and money as possible for women and children in need,” Rosling told The Lake Report. 

Silversmith is making no profit from the evening this year, Rosling said. 

“They’re definitely part of the fundraising this year.”

The first seating will begin at 5 p.m. with a reading at 6:30. The second will begin at 7:30 p.m. with a reading at 9 p.m. 

“The Mistletoe Bride” short story, the tale of a bride who becomes trapped in a chest while playing hide and seek with her groom on her wedding night, is many things, said Rosling.

“It’s a Christmas story, it’s a solstice story, it’s a rite-of-passage story. It’s a highly poetic, really interesting piece and the whole event was born around the Me Too movement,” she said. 

Tickets for dinner and Rosling’s reading of “The Mistletoe Bride” will be available on the Silversmith website as of Nov. 26.

For those who are unable to attend the event but still wish to donate to support Gillian’s Place, visit the GoFundMe page.