A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Adapted by Tony Giddings
Wednesday 1st to Saturday 4th December 1999
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
Charity Collector
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
Belle as a Mature Woman
Belle’s Husband
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
Burnett
Mayhew
Blanchard
Undertaker’s Man
1st Woman
2nd Woman
Old Joe
Debtor’s Wife
Debtor
Urchin Boy
Fiddler
Citizen / Seller
Citizen / Seller
Urchins
Michael Comba
Charlotte Havergal
Aimee Neaverson
Kate Torrington
Lee Ingram
Ruby Goldsmith
Helen Cosslett
Claire Smith
Angela Giddings
Rose White
Maeve Taylor
Mark Rhodes
Clive Greaves
Phil Cooper
Virginia Havergal
Mary Saunders
David Bailey
Nadine Comba
Sam Vaughn
Rose White
Jerry Pink
Clive James
Lyn Taylor
Phil Cooper
Emma Holmes
Angela Giddings
David Bailey
Graham Cross
Lee Ingram
Jerry Pink
Nick Havergal
Rebecca Mayo
James Shadwell
Emma Holmes
Stella Greaves
Jack Taylor
Miriam Havergal
Elizabeth Cosslett
James Shadwell
Tom Ludlow
Jerry Pink
Lee Ingram
Andrew Greaves
Jo Seaman
Ann Andrews
Clive James
Helen Cosslett
Graham Cross
William Holland
Harry Frazer
Lorna Brooks
Sandie Brooks
Elizabeth Cosslett
Daniel Hallissey
Neil Hussey
Carlene Robinson
