A Christmas Carol brings Dickens’s authentic story telling back to Greenwich.
This festive season, European Arts Company will be bringing the spirits of Christmas past, present and future back to Greenwich in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Performing the timeless Victorian ghost-story using the same performance script that Dickens himself would have read from in the 19th century, John O’Connor will be taking to the stage as Charles Dickens again in this highly acclaimed show’s sixth year at Greenwich Theatre.
The well-known festive classic will follow the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge as he is visited by a series of ghosts on the eve of Christmas, evaluating his past and influencing his future. This exciting production of A Christmas Carol, adapted from Dickens’s own public reading scripts and eyewitness accounts of him on stage, recreates the spirit of his original performances, just a stone’s throw from the Greenwich Literary Institution on Royal Hill where Dickens himself performed in 1866.
Dickens's public readings of A Christmas Carol became hugely popular throughout Britain and America. He performed the story over 150 times and, remarkably, made more money from his readings than from all his novels put together. A Christmas Carol was the first public reading he ever did and also the last. After the very first performance, he said The success was most wonderful and prodigious - perfectly overwhelming and astounding altogether. The starting point for this production was what must it have been like to be in the audience hearing the story direct from Dickens the author and performer?
Listings
A Christmas Carol is at Greenwich Theatre as part of a festive UK tour this December.
Mr Charles Dickens presents A Christmas Carol
Monday 16th December 2024 (7:30pm) Monday 23rd December 2024 (2:30pm / 7:30pm)
Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, London, SE10 8ES
Tickets are available from https://greenwichtheatre.org.uk/events/a-christmas-carol/