A Christmas Carol
From: Friday, 29th November 2002
To: Saturday, 11 January 2003
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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:
4 December 2002
Someone, one day, will decide that Scrooge is a character worthy of deeper study. Why was he abandoned at Christmas and what was his motivation for hoarding money? Such psychological niceties are not for Neil Bartlett in his warmly sentimental retelling of this classic tale.
The motivation for Scrooge is obvious: he exists to give meaning to our Christmas. Indeed, in his programme notes, Bartlett points out how much of our traditional Christmas is a direct product of Charles Dickens' imagination. Before A Christmas Carol, he says, Christmas had hardly been invented. Our Christmases are coloured by this story.
This is a show aimed unashamedly at the young, and it was gratifying to see a youthful audience packing out the theatre (it's not often one hears a cheer as the curtain is raised). As such, this adaptation concentrates on the heart-warming properties of the tale while the darker side is dealt with rather cursorily: Want and Ignorance remain below the spirit's...
Cast
Tim Pigott-Smith (Ebenezer Scrooge)
Creative
Charles Dickens (Author)
Neil Bartlett (Adaptation)
Neil Bartlett (Director)
Robert Whitmore (Design)
Paule Constable (Lighting)
Orlando Gough (music) (Director)
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