A Christmas Carol
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 adapted for opera, ballet, a Broadway musical, a BBC mime production starring Marcel Marceau, and Benjamin Britten's 1947 chamber orchestra composition Men of Goodwill: Variations on 'A Christmas Carol. Produced under the title Scrooge (e.g. 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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