Vocally he’s fascinating, too - somewhere between Michael Caine’s Bow Bells and Ozzy Osbourne’s West Midlands. And for the journeys into Christmases past, present and yet to come, expect projections of misty English landscapes, a flight with a Persian on a fog of dry ice and a ghost of the future that makes the whole house jump out of its collective skin.įull marks to Edmondson for combining the vitality of Vyvyan from 1980s TV comedy series The Young Ones with the scrofulous, lip-licking looks and mannerisms of Albert Steptoe. ![]() This is warmed not just by velvet jackets and tiered dresses, but by the rosy faces of carol singers, lit by lanterns. Pictured: Adrian Edmondson as Scrooge and Jasper Dance as Tiny Tim The backdrop of Stephen Brimson Lewis’s set design is the grim- visaged tenements of Scrooge’s 19th-century London, which has been transformed into a sort of derelict advent calendar, writes Patrick Marmion. The backdrop of Stephen Brimson Lewis’s set design is the grim- visaged tenements of Scrooge’s 19th-century London, which has been transformed into a sort of derelict advent calendar. Nor is there any doubt that this will prove to be one of the best - thanks to a sumptuous production directed by Rachel Kavanaugh that lays on the full, chocolate-box experience of Dickensian Victoriana, with a cornucopia of wigs, waistcoats and wassail. So maybe we shouldn’t complain about the prodigiously early arrival of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Christmas Carol - starring the increasingly ubiquitous Adrian Edmondson as Scrooge.īesides, there are so many productions of Dickens’s yuletide yarn up and down the country this year that it’s probably wise for the RSC to get theirs in early. ![]() Well, they’ve been selling mince pies in M&S for weeks and the seasonal lights are ready to flicker into action on Stratford’s High Street. A Christmas Carol (Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon)
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