Summary
On a freezing Christmas Eve in Victorian London, the miserly curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him of eternal damnation. During the night, Scrooge is guided by three spirits—the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future—who force him to confront his own cruelty, lost love, and the tragic fate awaiting his clerk’s family.
Sunday, January 4, 2026 at 8:00 PM Jan 4, 2026, 8:00 PM
Final performance. Loved it! Stunning atmosphere and lighting design. (I got a couple of gorgeous photos of the snow. Please look below!) Jack Thorne’s adaptation shrewdly decides to lean into Ebenezer-as-sympathetic-character which struck me as both surprising and very thoughtful. A Christmas Carol is so ubiquitous that we—or, at least, I—don’t think to second-guess anything about it. In many adaptations, we’re left to believe that this is just some guy that hates Christmas, but in real life, lots of people find it a fraught time for legitimate reasons. Developing an explicit link to a trauma background with his father makes Ebenezer believable and relatable, and the result is a shockingly resonant piece about breaking a cycle of generational trauma which never feels ham-handed; it’s not a traditional rendition but the story adapts really nicely to this and the brisk pacing keeps it compelling throughout. Michael Cerveris is pretty young for the role but he’s terrific in it anyways.