A Christmas Carol

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A novella by Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843.

The novella was adapted for the stage almost immediately. Three productions opened on 5 February 1844, and by the close of February 1844, eight rival Carol theatrical productions were playing in London.

The novel and the play have been a standard piece since then, and has been adapted for stage, film, radio and TV production in numerous ways over the years. Also often done under other titles, e.g. including Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost, a 1901 silent film; Scrooge (1913 film); Scrooge (1935 film); Scrooge (1951 film); Scrooge (1970 musical film), and Scrooge (1992 stage musical), etc.

Performance history in South Africa

Translations and adaptations

Pennyknyper ("Penny Pincher") An Afrikaans translation and adaptation of A Christmas Carol by **, directed for the Little Libertas Theatre, Stellenbosch in 2012 by Juanita Swanepoel, with Waldemar Schultz, ***

Scrooge, Lara Foot’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol , with Andrew Buckland, Marc Lottering, Shaleen Surtie-Richards and Christo Davids (2013).

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge


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