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Scrooge saves Christmas for Charles Dickens Museum with virtual performances

See the Dickens Museum take its performance of ‘A Christmas Carol’ online with actor Dominic Gerrard




The show is usually performed in front of a live audience but COVID restrictions made the museum change its approach for 2020   Credit: The Charles Dickens Museum

The Charles Dickens Museum in London, UK, thought its plans for Christmas had been scuppered when the British capital found itself first in Tier 3 and now Tier 4.

With the museum forced to close, its Christmas programme was all but ruined, were it not for an unlikely hero - Scrooge himself.

Played in this instance by Dominic Gerrard, Scrooge performs Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, recreating the classic Victorian work with a film shot inside the author’s London home.

Filmed by candlelight, the adaptation follows Scrooge through the very rooms where Dickens lived and wrote.

Featuring puppetry by Mandarava, and a Christmas soundscape with Alexis Bennett on violin, Gerrard’s performance will transport viewers through a shifting scenery of spaces, as Scrooge travels with the ghosts that have been sent to reclaim him.

Normally a live experience with guests cramming into each room as Scrooge explores the Dickens house, the 70-minute film was directed by Tim Carroll, a renowned theatre and opera director with over 25 years of international experience.

The performance is followed by a live Q&A session through Zoom with Gerrard plus guests.

“There have been few upsides to lockdown life this year, but the opportunity of bringing Dominic Gerrard’s wonderful production of A Christmas Carol to an online audience is truly special,” said Cindy Sughrue, director of the Charles Dickens Museum.

“Although there are other fine productions of A Christmas Carol this year, this is the only one taking place inside the very rooms in which Dickens created some of his greatest characters and stories.”

The final session takes place on December 31, with tickets available at £15 per person. click here to book



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Scrooge saves Christmas for Charles Dickens Museum with virtual performances

See the Dickens Museum take its performance of ‘A Christmas Carol’ online with actor Dominic Gerrard




The show is usually performed in front of a live audience but COVID restrictions made the museum change its approach for 2020   Credit: The Charles Dickens Museum

The Charles Dickens Museum in London, UK, thought its plans for Christmas had been scuppered when the British capital found itself first in Tier 3 and now Tier 4.

With the museum forced to close, its Christmas programme was all but ruined, were it not for an unlikely hero - Scrooge himself.

Played in this instance by Dominic Gerrard, Scrooge performs Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, recreating the classic Victorian work with a film shot inside the author’s London home.

Filmed by candlelight, the adaptation follows Scrooge through the very rooms where Dickens lived and wrote.

Featuring puppetry by Mandarava, and a Christmas soundscape with Alexis Bennett on violin, Gerrard’s performance will transport viewers through a shifting scenery of spaces, as Scrooge travels with the ghosts that have been sent to reclaim him.

Normally a live experience with guests cramming into each room as Scrooge explores the Dickens house, the 70-minute film was directed by Tim Carroll, a renowned theatre and opera director with over 25 years of international experience.

The performance is followed by a live Q&A session through Zoom with Gerrard plus guests.

“There have been few upsides to lockdown life this year, but the opportunity of bringing Dominic Gerrard’s wonderful production of A Christmas Carol to an online audience is truly special,” said Cindy Sughrue, director of the Charles Dickens Museum.

“Although there are other fine productions of A Christmas Carol this year, this is the only one taking place inside the very rooms in which Dickens created some of his greatest characters and stories.”

The final session takes place on December 31, with tickets available at £15 per person. click here to book



 



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