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Mr Charles Dickens presents A Christmas Carol
European Arts Company are celebrating their fifth year bringing their critically acclaimed, authentic production of A Christmas Carol to Greenwich Theatre, London. This festive adaptation sees actor John O’Connor take to the stage as Charles Dickens, performing the classic Christmas ghost story as Dickens did himself in Greenwich in 1866.
Charles Dickens originally wanted to be an actor and A Christmas Carol was the first public performance he gave of his work. After opening night, he said the success was most wonderful and prodigious – perfectly overwhelming and astounding altogether! Dickens’s electrifying public readings were hugely popular throughout Britain and America; he had a magnetic stage presence, riveting eyes, expressive voice, and wonderful powers of characterisation. Remarkably, Dickens made more money from his readings than from all his novels and stories put together, performing A Christmas Carol over 150 times. This exciting production, adapted from Dickens’s own public reading scripts and eyewitness accounts of him on stage, recreates the spirit of his original performances.
A Christmas Carol is at Greenwich Theatre as part of a festive UK tour this December. The show is dedicated to the memory of its Director Peter Craze, a Greenwich resident for 50 years who sadly passed away in 2020, but whose work lives on in this production.
Charles Dickens originally wanted to be an actor and A Christmas Carol was the first public performance he gave of his work. After opening night, he said the success was most wonderful and prodigious – perfectly overwhelming and astounding altogether! Dickens’s electrifying public readings were hugely popular throughout Britain and America; he had a magnetic stage presence, riveting eyes, expressive voice, and wonderful powers of characterisation. Remarkably, Dickens made more money from his readings than from all his novels and stories put together, performing A Christmas Carol over 150 times. This exciting production, adapted from Dickens’s own public reading scripts and eyewitness accounts of him on stage, recreates the spirit of his original performances.
A Christmas Carol is at Greenwich Theatre as part of a festive UK tour this December. The show is dedicated to the memory of its Director Peter Craze, a Greenwich resident for 50 years who sadly passed away in 2020, but whose work lives on in this production.
Tue 12 Dec to Monday 18 Dec 2023
Greenwich Theatre
Crooms Hill
London SE10 8ES
7.30pm, £16
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