Ebenezer Scrooge is a penny-pinching miser in the first degree. He cares nothing for the people around him and mankind exists only for the money that can be made through exploitation and intimidation. He particularly detests Christmas which he views as 'a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer'. Scrooge is visited, on Christmas Eve, by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley who died seven Christmas Eves ago.
Marley, a miser from the same mold as Scrooge, is suffering the consequences in the afterlife and hopes to help Scrooge avoid his fate. He tells Scrooge that he will be haunted by three spirits. These three spirits, the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, succeed in showing Scrooge the error of his ways. His glorious reformation complete, Christmas morning finds Scrooge sending a Christmas turkey to his long-suffering clerk, Bob Cratchit, and spending Christmas day in the company of his nephew, Fred, whom he had earlier spurned.
Scrooge's new-found benevolence continues as he raises Cratchit's salary and vows to assist his family, which includes Bob's crippled son, Tiny Tim. In the end Dickens reports that Scrooge became ' as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew'.
Scrooge |
Mike Janes |
Bob Cratchit |
Charlie Cook |
Fred, Scrooge's Nephew |
Simon Caporn |
Two Portly Gentlemen |
Eric Smith
Jeremy Cleverley |
The Ghost of Jacob Marley |
Peter de la Wyche |
The Spirit of Christmas Past |
Caroline Melliar-Smith |
Child Scrooge |
Aiden Westaway
Richard Barnes |
Boy Scrooge |
Rick Price |
Headmaster |
Jeremy Cleverley |
Fan |
Olivia Jones |
Mr Fezziwig |
Jeremy Cleverley |
Dick Wilkins |
John Lawson |
Fiddler |
Bill Paulson |
Mrs Fezziwig |
Belinda Coghlan |
Young Scrooge |
Ed Barry |
Belle |
Alice Battersby |
Belle's daughter |
Jessica Riley |
The Spirit of Christmas Present |
Eric Smith |
Mrs Cratchit |
Diana Boswell |
Peter |
Rick Price |
Belinda |
Olivia Jones |
Martha |
Jessica Riley |
Boy Cratchit |
Aiden Flatt |
Girl Cratchit |
Anwen Jones |
Tiny Tim |
Aiden Westaway
Richard Barnes |
Fred's Wife |
Alice Battersby |
Her Sisters |
Linda Batson
Pat Barrow
Caroline Melliar-Smith |
Mr Topper |
Tom Thistleton |
Spirit of Christmas Yet To Come |
Vi Pope |
Old Joe |
Peter de la Wyche |
Charwoman |
Adele Taylor |
Performance Note: The programme listed Charwoman as Sue Jones who had to pull out a week before the performance because of a family commitment
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Mrs Dilber |
Belinda Coghlan |
Undertaker's Man |
Ronnie Dykstra |
All Other roles were played by members of the company
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Stage Manager |
Jill Hine |
ASMs |
Liz Cook
Christina Theobald
Helen Bingle
Daphne Martyn
Jan Atkinson
Val Watkinson
Paul Lewis |
Music |
Chris McClory |
Lighting |
Martin Theobald |
Sound |
Steve Williamson |
Prop Construction |
Jacque Bilsborough
Diana Boswell
Tom Thistleton |
Costumes |
Olive Bradbury
Linda Batson
Jacque Bilsborough
Sonia Dykstra
Fenella Fowkes
Carole Holmes |
Set Design |
Steve Williamson |
Set Construction |
Steve Williamson
Mike Rhodes
Ronnie Dykstra |
Wigs |
Chris Bullimore |
House Managers |
Trevor Jones
Allan Percival
Pat Wheeler |
Graphic Design by MacDrive
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The play was sponsored by Wilmslow artist, Jacky Freeman
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