The Royal Shakespeare Company is to revive David Edgar’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol which played in Stratford at the end of 2017.
Aden Gillett will make his RSC debut as Ebenezer Scrooge. He is known for his extensive television credits, which include Father Brown, Holby City, Silent Witness and House of Elliott.
His stage appearances include Noises Off by Michael Frayn at the National Theatre, Twelfth Night at the Donmar Warehouse and he played Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing at the Theatre Royal Bath in 2005.
Gillett received the Theatre World award for world’s most promising newcomer for his performance in J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls at the Royale Theatre, Broadway. In November 2005, he joined the cast of the West End production of Mary Poppins, playing George Banks.
The cast of A Christmas Carol also includes Victoria Blunt (Mrs Baldock / Caroline / schoolboy / housemaid), Tom Byrne (Fred / sailor / employee), Gerard Carey (Bob Cratchit / miner / employee), Claire Carrie (Lady Tibshelf / Christmas Past / aunt / laundress), Sally Cheng (Katherine / Belinda Cratchit / Emily / schoolboy), Matthew Dale (Uber / doctor / second businessman / servant / miner / priest), Steven Elliott (Marley / first businessman / tumbler / second lighthouse keeper), Clive Hayward (Fezziwig / Old Joe / chestnut seller / Robert / first lighthouse keeper), Danielle Henry (Mrs Trowell / Christmas Present / Mrs Fezziwig / charwoman), Samantha Hull (swing), Beruce Khan (John Forster), Sam Jenkins-Shaw (father / coachman / Hinge / Mr Baldock / George / miner), Bethany Linsdell (Martha Cratchit / Amy / Cecilia / schoolboy), Jessica Murrain (Isabel / Lucy), Kwami Odoom (Wicker / sailor), Emma Pallant (Mrs Cratchit / Mrs Snapchat / beggar / matron), Joey Phillips (Slingshot / miner / young man), Shiv Rabheru (swing), Joseph Timms (Charles Dickens /young Scrooge / Bowler) and Rachel Winters (Fanny / Jane / housemaid).
A Christmas Carol will be directed by Rachel Kavanaugh and designed by Stephen Brimson Lewis with lighting by Tim Mitchell. Music is by Catherine Jayes and sound by Fergus O’Hare. Movement is by Georgina Lamb.
It runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford from Tuesday 4 December until Sunday 20 January 2019. Press night will be Tuesday 11 December.