A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

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Mark Gatiss

Nicholas Farrell

James Backway

Angelina Chudi

Joni Ayton-Kent

Zak Ford-Williams

Aoife Gaston

Edward Harrison

Sarah Ridgeway

Joe Shire

Christopher Godwin

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BBC Four - A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

Mark Gatiss's fantastic theatrical production of Dickens’s classic winter ghost story.

An opportunity to see Mark Gatiss's astonishing theatrical production of Dickens’s classic winter ghost story, A Christmas Carol, directed for the stage by Adam Penford.

Mark Gatiss stars as Jacob Marley in his own theatrical retelling of Dickens’s classic winter ghost story, with Nicholas Farrell as Scrooge. Directed for the stage by Adam Penford, this powerful tale of life, love, loss and redemption is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1843. Filled with Dickensian, spine-tingling special effects, prepare to be frightened and delighted in equal measure as you enter the supernatural Victorian world of A Christmas Carol.

It’s a cold Christmas Eve and mean-spirited miser Ebenezer Scrooge has an unexpected visit from the spirit of his former business partner Jacob Marley. Bound in chains as punishment for a lifetime of greed, the unearthly figure explains it isn’t too late for Scrooge to change his miserly ways in order to escape the same fate, but first he’ll have to face three more eerie encounters…

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