“A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens”—this simple phrase brings a smile to most people’s face and why not? It might be the best short story ever written, or the best loved, or the best known, or the most enjoyable—it certainly has to be performed, as Dickens himself knew. It’s the holiday season, and we must have our pudding, our parsnips, and our “Christmas Carol.” The story actually helped create our modern idea of Christmas, it influences Christmas, it is part of Christmas, and it reminds us that there is more to Christmas than a shopping and eating festival.
Well known composer Thomas Johnson (whose credits include a West End hit and the Royal National Theatre) has composed a score that moves and delights—at times foot stomping and at other times heartbreaking. The director, Paul Stebbings, is well known for his integration of music and theater and has won major awards in Europe and Asia.
The story is enormous fun, but it is also surprisingly serious. Dickens warns that unless despair and poverty are banished from London, the City will burn in flames. Scrooge is frightened half to death and Marley is forever damned. But comedy has also not been forgotten! The Ghost of Christmas Present has a weakness for pantomime.... This evening of English theater for young and old is a theatrical Christmas feast that has delighted audiences in almost every corner of the globe.
Tickets are CHF 45 for adults and CHF 27 for students and youths; reserve tickets for the afternoon show at https://shop.snapticket.de/event/a-christas-carol-14-00-55ljoo and for the evening show at https://shop.snapticket.de/event/a-christas-carol-18-00-zwhlr5.

Website
adg-europe.com/a-christmas-carol-by-paul-stebbings/

Where
SCALA BASEL
Freie Strasse 89
4051 Basel

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