A Christmas Carol
19 December 2006 – 12 January 2007
The Shaw Theatre
It’s Christmas Eve 1843 and Jacob Marley visits Ebeneezer Scrooge. There’s only one problem. Marley is dead.
Hidden Pearl Productions presents The Company of Actors in a faithful adaptation of Dickens’s text. The world of Tiny Tim, the Ghosts and all Dickens’s other marvellous characters is brought to life with songs and life size puppets.
Reviews
The cast of eight performers play all the roles supplemented by a selection of puppets of various size and form. Ian Bass makes for a fun Fred, with a collection of adult size children at his feet and a bouncing wife brought to life by Kali Peacock. Dermot Canavan is full of Christmas spirit as the delightful Fezziwig and Henry Everett is perfectly cast as Ebeneezer, scaring the children in the audience more than some of the ghosts.
Paul Vale
The Stage
The cast of eight narrates and sometimes sings the story of the miserly Scrooge and his path to redemption with great energy, each taking on a variety of the weird and wonderful characters that people the book... With only one female, the male actors even double up as women, while a puppet plays the pivotal role of Tiny Tim... Henry Everett excells as Scrooge.
Angela Cobbinah
Camden New Journal
Dermot Canavan is a delight as Fezziwig, while Henry Everett’s Scrooge captures just the right grouchy bathos of a man who knows he’s done wrong but hates to admit it... The company work well as an ensemble, boosting their fresh interpretation in a production that is largely faithful to the original text... Pickles is helped by Paul Knight’s songs and Maureen Freedman’s very pretty design, suggesting that the whole drama leapt fully-fledged from the beautiful illustrations Dickens ensured accompanied the story’s first publication.
Helena Thompson
Ham & High
Cast
- Ian Bass
- Dermot Canavan
- Nicholas Chambers
- Henry Everett
- Nigel Lister
- Richard Mark
- Kali Peacock
- Michael Rouse
Creative Team
- Adapted & Directed by
- Chris Pickles
- Composer & Musical Supervisor
- Paul Knight
- Associate Director
- Ken Bentley
- Set and Puppet Design
- Maureen Freedman
- Costume Design
- Adrian Lillie
- Lighting Design
- Derek Carlyle
- Musical Director
- Richard Mark
- Choreography
- Michael Rouse
- Production Manager
- Derek Carlyle
- Deputy Stage Manager
- Jo Strickland
- Assistant Stage Manager
- Amber Elliott
Production Team
- Producer
- Crispin Harris
- Associate Producer
- Jo Mackey
- Assistant to the Producer
- Ken Bentley
- Marketing Consultant
- David Shepherd
- Press
- Impressive PR
- Production Photography
- Asa Goldschmied
Puppet Makers
- Antoinette Brown
- Clio Brown
- Janine Cooper
- Mahni Dare
- Elves n Elements
- Maureen Freedman
- Bonita Lubbe
- Matthew Richards
- Barry Saltman
- Tinka Slavicek
- Roxane Steen
- Tarryn Thomson
- Elizabeth Thompson