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The theatre version is pure theatre, the film, pure cinema, proving how phenomenally rich this favourite of all Christmas stories is.

Ebeneezer Scrooge, the miserly owner of an old counting house, is visited by the ghost of his. A Christmas Carol (2014), by Iain Bell, libretto by Simon Callow. A Christmas Carol: Directed by Tom Cairns. Shot entirely in an abandoned warehouse, it takes the viewer indoors and outdoors, through the seasons and across the haunted city of London. Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022), an animated musical version and a remake of Scrooge. As we worked on the show, right from the beginning we saw that it might make a wonderful film, quite different from the stage show, drawing the viewer even more closely into contact with the story-teller, using the matchless poetic resources of the camera to summon up the many worlds through which Dickens takes us and the miser, Ebenezer Scrooge. Simon Callow said: “When Tom Cairns and I started working on our one-man version of A Christmas Carol, we were very excited by the possibilities of putting the audience in direct contact with Dickens, who is even more vividly present in it as a narrator than in his other books, he climbs into your head, he is always by your side, the master conjuror and also the commentator. A Christmas Carol is produced by BBC Films, The Space and Assembly Christmas Carol Ltd. Steaming out on UK Tour from April 2022 and returning to the Barbican by popular demand. On Tuesday 11 December the stage-to-film adaptation, reimagined especially for cinema, will be released in 444 cinemas across the UK and Ireland by leading event cinema distributors CinemaLive.īased on Charles Dickens’s own performance adaptation, Simon Callow and director Tom Cairns ( Marie and Bruce, Amongst Women) have created a one-man cinematic extravaganza of festive storytelling that is both heart-warming and deeply moving. The sold-out musical sensation, Anything Goes returns to the UK in 2022.

Following three critically-acclaimed, sold-out seasons on stage in London’s West End, Simon Callow ( Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love) brings Charles Dickens’ beloved classic A Christmas Carol to the big screen in December 2018.