Christmas Carol: A Fairy Tale

Christmas Carol: A Fairy Tale

by Charles Dickens and Piers Torday
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Publication Date: 05/12/2019

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Things are going to be different. Very different...


1838, London. Jacob Marley is dead. And so is Ebenezer Scrooge…


In this reinvention of the timeless classic, Ebenezer has died and his sister Fan has inherited his money-lending business. She rapidly becomes notorious as the most monstrous miser ever known, a legendary misanthrope, lonely, and despised by all who cross her path.


This year, on Christmas Eve, Fan Scrooge will be haunted by three spirits. They want her to change. But will she?


This stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's Christmas tale is by renowned author Piers Torday. Christmas Carol: A Fairy Tale first came to life in the Dickensian environment of the world's oldest-surviving music hall, Wilton's Music Hall, London, in December 2019.


It will prove a festive gift for amateur theatre companies seeking an original, female-led version with lashings of goodwill to all men – and women.

ISBN:
9781788502979
9781788502979
Category:
Plays
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-12-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Nick Hern Books
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and became the most popular novelist of the Victorian era.

A prolific writer, he published more than a dozen novels in his lifetime, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and Hard Times, most of which have been adapted many times over for radio, stage and screen.

Piers Torday

Piers began his career in theatre and then television as a producer and writer. His bestselling first book for children, The Last Wild, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal as well as numerous other awards.

His second book, The Dark Wild, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The third book in the trilogy, The Wild Beyond, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. His next book for children, There May Be A Castle, will be published in October 2016.

The son of the late Paul Torday (author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) Piers recently completed his father's final unfinished novel, The Death of an Owl (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, April 2016).

In regular demand as a speaker at schools and festivals, Piers is also a reading helper with Beanstalk, a former judge on the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a Patron of Reading at Heathmere School and a trustee of the Pleasance Theatre. Born in Northumberland, he now lives in London with his husband and hopefully a cat.

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