The Show
Steve Nallon’s Christmas Carol despite being based on one of the most frequently told stories in the world is nevertheless a unique theatrical presentation. One might even describe the show as ‘post-modern’. Not only does it to mix high and low culture so that classical actors rub shoulders with game show hosts, the show is also very post-modern in that the style of theatrical presentation is constantly in flux. One minute the audience are expected to be mourners at a funeral, the next they are friends of Mrs Cratchit invited into her home for a Christmas gossip. In the future shadows of what will be for Scrooge if he does not change his way, the audience theatrically takes on the role of ‘The Ghost of Christmas Future’. Some of the characters in the show know they are in ‘a show’ but others do not, which leads to comically theatrical exchanges when they appear in the same scene.