Current shows:

A Christmas Carol

By Charles Dickens

told by Mike Maran

with music composed and performed by Alison Stephens.

The same team that brought you Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières now bring you A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Mike tells the story – ‘a mesmeric storyteller’ (The Stage) – and Ali plays the music on mandolin and other instruments – ‘wonderful fleeting fingered magical mandolin playing' (London Evening Standard). It’s the same winning formula - a great story with wonderful music.

Mike and Ali have done over 600 performances of Corelli and have got to know each other quite well. Nevertheless, they have decided to produce a new show together! After all these years of fusing words and music, Mike and Ali have developed what you might call ‘a conspiracy’ – a way of breathing together. And together they breathe life into this famous story which leaps off the page and onto the stage.

Scrooge is a terrible miser – but he can’t be all bad. He could hardly become so beautifully transformed at the end of the story if he never had the potential in the first place.

The ghosts are not so frightening – well maybe just a little bit scary. They lead Scrooge down the roads of the past, the present and the future because he wants to see everything that they can show him.

Scrooge’s nephew Fred laughs all the way through the story. If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge’s nephew all I can say is that I’d like to know him too.

And Tiny Tim doesn’t die.

A Merry Christmas and God Bless us, everyone!