Mark Gatiss’ A Christmas Carol to return to Nottingham and London for 2023

Mark Gatiss’ retelling of A Christmas Carol is to return to Nottingham and London this festive season.

Following a phenomenally successful premiere season in 2021, the reimagining of Dickens’ winter ghost story will be back at Nottingham Playhouse from 27 October – 18 November 2023.

It will then head to London at the Alexandra Palace from 24 November 2023 – 7 January 2024.

It’s a cold Christmas Eve and mean-spirited miser Ebenezer Scrooge has an unexpected visit from the spirit of his former business partner Jacob Marley.

Bound in chains as punishment for a lifetime of greed, the unearthly figure explains it isn’t too late for Scrooge to change his miserly ways in order to escape the same fate, but first he’ll have to face three more eerie encounters…

Mark Gatiss said: “I’m delighted that my adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is returning to Nottingham Playhouse and Alexandra Palace this year after such a successful outing last time.

“I’m sad to say that having fulfilled my lifetime ambition of Jacob Marley, I shall be hanging up my chains, but I am extremely delighted and excited at the prospect of a new Scrooge and Marley to take up the reins for this festive season. I can’t wait to be part of it again and see it from the other side of the veil.”

Directed by Adam Penford (The Clothes They Stood Up In, The Madness of George III), the production has design by Paul Wills, lighting design by Philip Gladwell, sound design by Ella Wahlström and video design by Nina Dunn with movement director Georgina Lamb and composer Tingying Dong.

The show originally premiered at Nottingham Playhouse in 2021, transferred to London’s Alexandra Palace Theatre, and was then released in a filmed version in UK cinemas in 2022 and shown on BBC4 over the Christmas period.

For more information and tickets, visit christmascarolonstage.co.uk