Rufus Hound will play Jacob Marley in Birmingham Rep’s 2024 staging of A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story, Mark Gatiss’ssupernatural stage adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.
Gatiss played Marley in the 2021 production at Nottingham Playhouse. The Rep’s staging of A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story will be a Nottingham Playhouse production in association with Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Eilene Davidson Productions.
Matthew Cottle, who played Energy Secretary Peter Walker in Beth Steel’s Wonderland at Nottingham Playhouse in 2018, will play Scrooge. Reprising their Nottingham Playhouse roles are Geoffrey Beevers (Narrator), Rebecca Trehearn (Mrs Cratchit) and Ryan Weston (Tiny Tim).
The rest of the cast comprises Karendip Phull (Caroline and Mrs Bonniface), Lance West (Fred, Young Scrooge and Peter Cratchit), Kalifa Taylor (Belle and other roles), Oscar Batterham (Bob Cratchit), Grace Hogg-Robinson (Ghost of Christmas Past), Mark Theodore (Ghost of Christmas Present) and Olivia-Faith Kamau and Iverson Yabut (on-stage swings).
Nottingham Playhouse artistic director Adam Penford again directs. The rest of the creative team is Paul Wills (set designer), Philip Gladwell (lighting designer), Ella Wahlström (sound designer), Nina Dunn (video designer), Georgina Lamb (movement director), Tom Attwood (musical director), Matthew Forbes (puppet designer and director), Tingying Dong (composer), Kay Welch (voice and dialect coach), Ginny Schiller (casting director), John Bulleid (illusion designer), Emily Oulton (associate director), Laura O’Connel (associate designer), Jason Addison (associate lighting designer), Tom Shipman (associate sound designer) and Hannah Schlenker (associate video designer).
A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story will run from Thursday 14 November until Sunday 5 January 2025.
The Rep’s festive show for younger families will be an adaptation of Benji Davies’s The Snowflake. Layla Mehay-Bennett will play Noelle, while Heidi Goldsmith will take the roles of mum and Pappie. It will run in The Door from Thursday 5 December until Sunday 12 January 2025.
The Rep’s production of Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman will return for a limited run from Thursday 9 until Sunday 12 January 2025.