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Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by spirits who challenge him to reconsider his life and how he treats others. This general entry represents stage adaptations of Charles Dickens’s story when a specific adaptation is not identified.
A Christmas Carol is a one-man stage performance by English actor Patrick Stewart of the Charles Dickens 1843 novella of the same title, which has been performed in the United Kingdom and the United States on occasion since 1988. Stewart was originally inspired to create the adaptation during the production of the 1986 film Lady Jane. It is performed without costumes or props, and has Stewart playing more than 30 characters. Critics have praised Stewart's portrayal and compared them to the readings performed by Dickens during the 19th century. A film adaptation of the play, with Stewart reprising his role, aired on TNT in 1999, directed by David Jones and co-starring Richard E. Grant.
In Jack Thorne’s adaptation, Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. The production reshapes Dickens’s story: Scrooge’s father’s debts and abuse burden his family, Fezziwig is an undertaker, and Scrooge reconnects with his former fiancée Belle after his reformation.
The miser Ebenezer Scrooge dismisses Christmas and treats his clerk harshly until his dead partner warns him of three spirit visits. Visions of his past, present and possible future challenge his devotion to money and offer him a chance to change.
On Christmas Eve, seven years after Jacob Marley’s death, the solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by his former partner, shackled for a lifetime of greed. Marley warns Scrooge that he can still change his fate, but first must face three more ghosts.
The miser Scrooge, who mistreats his clerk Bob Cratchit and rejects Christmas, is visited on Christmas Eve by his dead partner Marley and three Spirits. Their visit may turn him from a cold, solitary life and avert his destruction.
A Klingon adaptation of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol recasts Scrooge’s journey toward generosity through Klingon values of courage and honor. A Vulcan narrator introduces the story, performed in Klingon with English supertitles.
Rattigan and Gielgud's dramatization of Dickens is set during the French Revolution in London and Paris, using a flexible ensemble to portray its many roles. Gielgud planned to play Sydney Carton and several other characters.
A three-actor narrative-theatre adaptation uses nearly all of Dickens's novella, with performers rotating through Scrooge and found objects standing in for characters such as Tiny Tim and the Christmas ghosts. Its spare staging aims to restore the source's satire and political comment.
An unexpected fortune allows the orphan Pip to leave a blacksmith’s forge for life as a gentleman. His attachment to Estella and his assumptions about his benefactor gradually unravel as the past returns.
Eddie Izzard performs a solo reading of Charles Dickens’s story of Pip, an orphan whose unexpected inheritance draws him away from his childhood home. The performance moves among the novel’s characters as Pip confronts ambition, shame, and mistaken assumptions about his benefactor.
Riccardo Zandonai’s three-act opera adapts Charles Dickens’s The Cricket on the Hearth. Its characters include carrier John Peerybingle and his wife Dot, toymakers Caleb Plummer and Tackleton, and the Plummer family.
The two-act opera loosely adapts Great Expectations and centers on an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Aurelia Havisham’s death.
After the death of a wine-merchant proprietor, executors try to find a missing heir, a quest that carries them from London wine cellars to the Mediterranean and the winter Alps amid danger, mistaken identity and treachery.
An allegorical Arctic drama responds to the loss of Franklin’s expedition and the controversy over reports of its fate.
Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by spirits who challenge him to reconsider his life and how he treats others. This general entry represents stage adaptations of Charles Dickens’s story when a specific adaptation is not identified.
A Christmas Carol is a one-man stage performance by English actor Patrick Stewart of the Charles Dickens 1843 novella of the same title, which has been performed in the United Kingdom and the United States on occasion since 1988. Stewart was originally inspired to create the adaptation during the production of the 1986 film Lady Jane. It is performed without costumes or props, and has Stewart playing more than 30 characters. Critics have praised Stewart's portrayal and compared them to the readings performed by Dickens during the 19th century. A film adaptation of the play, with Stewart reprising his role, aired on TNT in 1999, directed by David Jones and co-starring Richard E. Grant.
In Jack Thorne’s adaptation, Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. The production reshapes Dickens’s story: Scrooge’s father’s debts and abuse burden his family, Fezziwig is an undertaker, and Scrooge reconnects with his former fiancée Belle after his reformation.
The miser Ebenezer Scrooge dismisses Christmas and treats his clerk harshly until his dead partner warns him of three spirit visits. Visions of his past, present and possible future challenge his devotion to money and offer him a chance to change.
On Christmas Eve, seven years after Jacob Marley’s death, the solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by his former partner, shackled for a lifetime of greed. Marley warns Scrooge that he can still change his fate, but first must face three more ghosts.
The miser Scrooge, who mistreats his clerk Bob Cratchit and rejects Christmas, is visited on Christmas Eve by his dead partner Marley and three Spirits. Their visit may turn him from a cold, solitary life and avert his destruction.
A Klingon adaptation of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol recasts Scrooge’s journey toward generosity through Klingon values of courage and honor. A Vulcan narrator introduces the story, performed in Klingon with English supertitles.
Rattigan and Gielgud's dramatization of Dickens is set during the French Revolution in London and Paris, using a flexible ensemble to portray its many roles. Gielgud planned to play Sydney Carton and several other characters.
A three-actor narrative-theatre adaptation uses nearly all of Dickens's novella, with performers rotating through Scrooge and found objects standing in for characters such as Tiny Tim and the Christmas ghosts. Its spare staging aims to restore the source's satire and political comment.
An unexpected fortune allows the orphan Pip to leave a blacksmith’s forge for life as a gentleman. His attachment to Estella and his assumptions about his benefactor gradually unravel as the past returns.
Eddie Izzard performs a solo reading of Charles Dickens’s story of Pip, an orphan whose unexpected inheritance draws him away from his childhood home. The performance moves among the novel’s characters as Pip confronts ambition, shame, and mistaken assumptions about his benefactor.
Riccardo Zandonai’s three-act opera adapts Charles Dickens’s The Cricket on the Hearth. Its characters include carrier John Peerybingle and his wife Dot, toymakers Caleb Plummer and Tackleton, and the Plummer family.
The two-act opera loosely adapts Great Expectations and centers on an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Aurelia Havisham’s death.
After the death of a wine-merchant proprietor, executors try to find a missing heir, a quest that carries them from London wine cellars to the Mediterranean and the winter Alps amid danger, mistaken identity and treachery.
An allegorical Arctic drama responds to the loss of Franklin’s expedition and the controversy over reports of its fate.