Reviews
The most remarkable thing about Steve Nallon's hilarious one-man show at The Door, is how closely he has based the narrative on Charles Dickens's original and how well it captures the atmosphere, flavour intention of the story -- despite a wicked send-up of all its characters and conventions.
Nallon playing Alastair Sim playing Scrooge is as simple as it gets. The audience has also to get its head round Alan Bennett playing a charity collector or Nallon playing Mrs Cratchit in the persona of Patricia Routledge playing Hyacinth Bucket. No one is safe in this gleeful pageant of characters, from Germaine Greer to Delia Smith, Loyd Grossman to Jonathan Ross, Ann Widdecombe to David Beckham.
All he has to do is whip off one pair of glasses and substitute another as he switches seamlessly from character to character without losing the essence or the flow of the narrative. He roots the story on a simple set and punctuates the script with excursions into the audience to offer mince pies or to embarrass individuals. Music and sound from Richard Hammarton add period detail, fun and ghostliness in a glorious antidote to Christmas.
Pat Ashworth, The Stage -- 8 January 2004