East Midlands touring company New Perspectives is taking Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol on a national rural tour over the next six weeks.
“This is one of the greatest-loved stories of all time, written by one of our greatest-loved writers,” says director Matt Cullum.
“It was always our idea that one actor would create the world of A Christmas Carol—Dickens did it to great effect—so we’ve decided to go down the road of an old Victorian-style piece of theatre using effects that were available in that period.”
Cullum was recently movement director for New Perspectives's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's The Butterfly Lion.
He was also associate director to Steven Berkoff on the UK tour of Oedipus and On the Waterfront.
Scotland-born actor Kern Falconer will play the storyteller. He appeared in Macbeth for Aquila Theatre Company in New York, The Government Inspector for the Almeida Theatre Company and the Charles Vance UK tour of The 39 Steps.
The tour of A Christmas Carol has just started and this week will be at the Helmdon Reading Room, Northamptonshire on Wednesday; Highfields School, Matlock, Derbyshire on Thursday; and Tideswell Village Hall, Derbyshire on Friday.