A Christmas Carol
From: Saturday, 2nd December 2006
To: Saturday, 20 January 2007
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Synopsis
Dicken's original story of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet to come. This story has been adapted many many ways but the true magic and the great mix of fright and delight comes only from returning to the original.
Our Review:
11 December 2006
It’s enough to melt the stoniest heart. In the theatre entrance, the Salvation Army band plays for late night shoppers: outside Christmas carols, inside A Christmas Carol – and it’s hard to imagine a production more suited to celebrating the season.
Even before the start it’s clear that Charles Dickens is in safe hands, with a front-cloth of a Gustave Dore London skyline and a huge book spotlit on the forestage. The programme reveals that all eight adult actors also serve as storytellers: in fact chunks of Dickens’ narrative and description are spoken singly, in chorus, in fragments, even antiphonally, in a production that manages to be both traditional and innovatory.
The play itself begins with hand-bell ringers throughout the theatre while the stage is split between dancing children and Scrooge with the dead Marley. Not for the first time, the Playhouse’s joint artistic directors, Karen Louise Hebden (adaptation) and Stephen Edwards (directi...
Cast
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Charles Dickens (Author)
Derby Playhouse (Producer)
Stephen Edwards (Director)
Karen Louise Hebden (Adaptation)
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