Patrick Stewart Reprises Christmas Carol

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From Whatsonstage.com:

Tommy Steele won’t be the only Scrooge in town this Christmas. Filling the gap left by this month’s premature closure of Ducktastic at the West End’s Albery Theatre, Patrick Stewart will revive his Olivier Award-winning one-man version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol for a strictly limited season from 6 to 31 December 2005.

 

In A Christmas Carol, which he adapted for the stage himself, Stewart plays the miserly old businessman Ebenezer Scrooge as well as over 40 other characters including Jacob Marley, his dead business partner, and the spirits who visit Scrooge one night in an effort to help him reform his ways by Christmas morning.

 

When Stewart presented the piece at the West End’s Old Vic over the 1993/4 festive season, A Christmas Carol won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment. He has also performed it extensively in the US, including multiple runs on Broadway. In 1999, he played Scrooge in a fully-cast US television adaptation of the Christmas classic.

 

Though he’s best known internationally for his sci-fi screen roles in the likes of Star Trek and X Men, Stewart is a classically trained actor and an honorary associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he’ll return next year as part of the year-long Complete Works festival (See News, 11 Jul 2005). In 2003, he returned to the West End stage after a decade’s absence to star in The Master Builder, which he followed up this year with David Mamet two-hander A Life in the Theatre.

Edited November 15, 2005 by Takara_Soong