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A Christmas Carol--Kirkcaldy

A Christmas Carol--KirkcaldyPhoto by Mark Hamilton

The National Theatre of Scotland return with their acclaimed, award-winning production.

Your presence is requested at the offices of Messrs Scrooge and Marley... Read more …

The National Theatre of Scotland’s version of Charles Dickens’ classic fable is an exquisite take on one of our most famous winter tales.

Only 90 audience members per show join Ebenezer Scrooge in his Victorian counting house and sit in creepy close-up as this most famous of misers is visited by three ghosts during his night of soul-searching.

Other-worldly puppets, top-rank Scottish actors and some of the most beautiful words ever written in the English language combine to make this intimate Christmas Carol heart-rending and heart-warming in equal measure.

More information on this production is available at www.nationaltheatrescotland.com.

The critical consensus

If Gavin Glover’s puppet creations interpret Dickens’s imaginings with clever twists of his own devising, the cast supporting Young’s Scrooge handle the puppets with characterful finesse.

****(*)Mary Brennan, The Herald, 05/12/2011

It is brilliantly done.

Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 05/12/2011

In order to justify adding yet another show to Scottish theatre’s ample Christmas fare, the NTS was always going to have to come up with something special. With McLaren’s faithful, yet audacious, retelling of Dickens’s timeless tale, it has done so abundantly.

Mark Brown, Scottish Stage, 05/12/2011

Dickens' festive spook story is given a compelling and creepy outing by Graham McLaren.

****(*)Anna Burnside, The List, 07/12/2011

For all its brillint invention, the NTS show finally transmits less of the great spirit of Dickens than the sentimental old touring version of Scrooge, seen in Glasgow last week; and tells his story with less clarity and conviction.

***(*)(*)Joyce McMillan, 08/12/2011


Features about A Christmas Carol--Kirkcaldy

The National Theatre of Scotland's staging of A Christmas Carol

Mark Brown, Scottish Stage, 24/11/2011

Where and when?

The Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy from Friday December 7, 2012, until Sunday December 30, 2012.

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