Simon Callow is to star in a new version of Charles Dickens’s festive favourite A Christmas Carol, which will play at the Arts theatre from 8 December.
The much-loved British actor, who has a biography of Dickens being published in 2012, has taken the Victorian author’s own performing version of the seasonal story as the starting point for his production to create “a work of total storytelling”.
A perennial favourite for the season of tinsel and mince pies, A Christmas Carol tells the story of old miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who unexpectedly finds himself visited by a quartet of ghosts one Christmas Eve and is forced to re-evaluate his approach to life, money and the meaning of Christmas.
A Christmas Carol is directed by Tom Cairns, who previously worked with Callow on Being Shakespeare. It runs at the Arts theatre following the November run of A British Subject and the venue’s current show The Killing Of Sister George.
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