Ebeneezer Scrooge is spending his Christmas Eve in the usual way; claiming that all those who make merry at this festive time are fools. As he says, "What's Christmas but a time of paying debts with no money, becoming another year older and not one penny the richer?"
After ordering his clerk Bob Cratchit to return to work in the Scrooge & Marley counting house the next morning, he settles down to sleep. During the night, the ghost of his late partner Jacob Marley visits him and shows him the errors of his selfish ways. He awakens to find that it is Christmas morning, and can put right all of his past wrongs.

See also our productions of 'A Christmas Carol' in 1977 and 1987.

"Is this the place?" Mrs Fred, Scrooge's niece,
pays Ebeneezer a visit on Christmas Eve.

"At this festive time of year, Mr Scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute."
Scrooge is asked for a charitable donation.

"What do you think you're doing?"
- "Going home, sir." - "Home?"

"I've come to take you home, dear brother.
Home for good and all."
Marley shows Ebeneezer a vision of himself as a young boy, with his sister Fan.

"All that made my love of any worth or value has now been displaced by another idol - an idol made of gold." Scrooge's sweetheart breaks off their engagement in another vision.

"God bless us!" - "God bless us every one!"
At home with the Cratchits.

"What's this I see? Young children ragged, starving, homeless..."

"I suppose you've heard he's dead?" - "Dead? No! When did it happen?"
A vision of the future.

Scrooge and Marley survey the
visions before them.

"Do you know if they've sold the prize turkey that was hanging in the poulterer's shop?"
- "What, the one as big as me?"
Scrooge decides to make amends with the purchase of Christmas dinner.

Miracles still happen at Christmas...

...it's a magic time of year.

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