This Christmas we’ll be visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet to come and we’ll shed a tear as Tiny Tim rides home on good Bob Cratchit’s shoulder.
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas if Ebenezer Scrooge didn’t turn from villain to everybody’s favourite uncle. But how?
For the answer you’ll have to visit Bega’s Funhouse Studio where Craig Alexander, in a stunning two-hour, one-man show, will tell you the real story.
Armed with a step-ladder and half a dozen suitcases, and supported by cellist Jordan Best, Alexander takes on the spirit of Jacob Marley, Scrooge’s old partner, and a dozen other different characters to tell the real story behind the Dickens classic.
Marley is dead and buried, in hell weighed down by the chains forged from account books that ruled his life.
By his side is his own personal devil charged with tormenting him for all eternity, but the master accountant is offered salvation...on one condition.
“Scrooge? I have to redeem old Scrooge? The one man I knew was worse than I was? Impossible.”
But with Craig Alexander it seems nothing is impossible.
He plunges his audience down to the torments of hell up to the dome of St Pauls, backwards into the past and forward to the future, pulling the effects from his trove of suitcases as he weaves the spellbinding story of Marley’s mission.
Alexander’s show in a suitcase was a hit at Canberra’s Street Theatre last year.
Scrooge? I have to redeem old Scrooge? The one man I knew was worse than I was?
- Craig Alexander as Jacob Marley
Critics described it as “a performance that will have audiences captivated by an outstanding storyteller actor” and declaring it “a must see”.
He’s booked to appear in Canberra again this year, but first he’ll bring the magic of this show to Bega’s Funhouse Studio.
Alex Nicol, who’s arranged the visit and who worked with Alexander in an earlier version of the show, says the Funhouse is ideal.
“Craig wants to work with the audience on three sides,” Nicol said.
“He wants to be within touching distance of most of the house and that’s what his audience will get in the Funhouse.”
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol will play on Saturday, December 3 at 7.30pm and on Sunday, December 4, at 3pm at the Funhouse Studio (the old video store in Hill St, Bega).
Tickets are $25 and can be booked by calling 6492 2619.