A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Adapted by Tony Giddings
Wednesday 9th to Saturday 12th December 1981
The Civic Hall, Trowbridge
Charles Dickens classic Christmas Tale. Ebenezer Scrooge is a penny-pinching miser of the first degree. He cares nothing for the people around him and mankind exists only for the money that can be made through exploitation and intimidation. He particularly detests Christmas which he views as ‘a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer’. Scrooge is visited, on Christmas Eve, by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley who died seven Christmas Eves ago. Marley, a miser from the same mould as Scrooge, is suffering the consequences in the afterlife and hopes to help Scrooge avoid his fate. He tells Scrooge that he will be haunted by three spirits. These three spirits, the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, will show him the error of his ways.
Directed
by
Tony Giddings
Cast
Prologue
Alf
Freda
Woman Shopper
Mother
1st Girl
2nd Girl
Main Cast
Ebeneezer Scrooge
Bob Crachit
Fred
1st Charitable Lady
2nd Charitable Lady
The Ghost of Jacob Marley
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Scrooge as a Boy
Scrooge’s Sister
Schoolmaster
Mr. Fezziwig
Mrs. Fezziwig
Scrooge as a Young Man
Belle as a Young Woman
The Ghost of Christmas Present
Pie Seller
Man in Street
Tiny Tim
Dora
Topper
Emily
Mrs. Crachit
Peter Cratchitt
Belinda Cratchitt
Martha Cratchitt
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
1st Business Man
2nd Business Man
3rd Business Man
Undertaker’s Man
1st Woman
2nd Woman
Joe
Debtor
Debtor’s Wife
Urchin Boy
Fiddler
Walter Vowles
Ruby Goldsmith
Betty Francis
Angela Giddings
Sarah Hoar
Tessa French
Malcolm Harris
Paul Nichols
Clive James
June James
Pat Clarke
Tom Ludlow
Penny Prosser
Paul Daniels
Sarah Harris
John Williams
Steve Alsop
Ann Fisher
Allan Francis
Julie Wiseby
Graham Cross
Walter Vowles
John Williams
Stuart Ellis
Angela Martin
Richard Havergal
Virginia Havergal
Shirley Nicholls
Matthew Harris
Anna Clarke
Kim Law
Frances Julier
Tom Ludlow
Bob Bryant
John Williams
Allan Francis
Betty Francis
Lilian Bainton
Steve Alsop
Graham Cross
Ann Andrews
Sean Andrews
Bev Doel
