The Lost Estate’s iconic Christmas Carol experience is back. The Great Christmas Feast, a festive essential in London’s winter calendar, is now on sale for 2024 and will run from the 8th November to 12th January in West Kensington.
Be transported to Victorian London, Christmas Eve 1843. Witness A Christmas Carol like you’ve never seen it before. Indulge in three courses of an extravagant Victorian feast.
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Delighting audiences for over three decades, The Puppet Theatre Barge have truly ignited imaginations with their magical marionette productions. Having performed thousands of shows in their history, Movingstage trailblaze by keeping the tradition of string marionette puppetry alive. The company talk to Theatrefullstop about their upcoming production, A Christmas Carol.
Movingstage Theatre will be performing A Christmas Carol from Saturday 3rd December. How are rehearsals going for the show?
Rehearsals are going very well. We generally rehearse productions that have already been devised some time in the past and are part of our repertoire for a period of two weeks. This is now week two and we have three puppeteers working on this production.
A Christmas Carol is a well known Christmas classic. Why choose this story in particular to perform?
We decided to adapt A Christmas Carol for the marionette stage not only to have a production that has themes relevant to the Christmas season, but also because the story has elements that work perfectly in the marionette stage. The Puppet Theatre Barge specialises in a rare form of puppetry which uses long string marionettes, meaning that the puppeteers are out of view. By using long string marionettes, a world with no visible human presence is created and the audience’s imagination is captured and stimulated by the puppets – which become the main focus of the show. This form of staging allows us to create a sense of perspective and depth through the use of sophisticated lighting and scenery.
This type of staging has a lot of potential in the representation of the otherworldly characters present in the story, e.g. the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. Characters, some of them with little human resemblance, may appear and disappear in magical ways, fly on stage, spin out.
Don’t be a scrooge this festive season! Embrace the christmas countdown by entering our ‘A Christmas Carol’ competition courtesy of Oberon Books! A tale synonymous with this time of year, the well known 19th century classic has gripped many an imagination. Adapted for the stage by multiple award winning playwright, Neil Bartlett OBE, the tale of a stubborn and self centred protagonist transformed by the appearances of the ghosts of christmas past, present and future is vividly brought to life!
For your chance to win a copy of A Christmas Carol, answer the following question:
When was the original version of A Christmas Carol Published?
A) 1843
B) 1943
C) 2013
Competition closes on Friday 19th December 2014. Email your name, email address and answer to: theatrefullstop@gmail.com