A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

Author(s): Charles Dickens, adapted by Mark Gatiss Company: Nottingham Playhouse and Eleanor Lloyd Productions Age recommendation: 12+ years

It’s a cold Christmas Eve and mean-spirited miser Ebenezer Scrooge has an unexpected visit from the spirit of his former business partner Jacob Marley.

Bound in chains as punishment for a lifetime of greed, the unearthly figure explains it isn’t too late for Scrooge to change his miserly ways in order to escape the same fate, but first he’ll have to face three more eerie encounters…

Reviews

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

Charles Dickens adapted by Mark Gatiss

Nottingham Playhouse

27 October–18 November 2023

Mark Gatiss as Jacob Marley and Nicholas Farrell as Ebenezer Scrooge

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

Charles Dickens, adapted by Mark Gatiss

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company

Nottingham Playhouse

29 October–20 November 2021

News items

“Coup”: Keith Allen cast as Ebenezer Scrooge

Keith Allen to play Scrooge in Gatiss adaptation

6 September 2023

Keith Allen will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Mark Gatiss’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story at Nottingham Playhouse and London’s Alexandra Palace.

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20 March 2023

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