A Christmas Carol at Shakespeare North Playhouse is a serious dose of festive spirit ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🟠 franyeoman
It would be wrong to give spoilers about the ghosts’ arrival, but there are some genuinely creepy moments thanks to some inventive staging and a balloon. There’s also comedy, such as when Christmas Past appears to be channelling the French castle guards from Monty Python and the Holy Grail after taking Ebenezer back to the wrong person’s younger years: “Your mother looked a lot like a walnut in a hat”.
All of this is blended in way that really shouldn’t work, but does, with a brief but quite profound passage of social commentary about, as the voices of Prescot locals emerge from a wrapped gift to tell their stories of battling to make ends meet. Judged wrongly, this could be the moment that brings the show’s momentum shuddering to a cringeworthy halt, but Christmas Present does an admirable job of switching the mood back and forth between sincere and silly.
A panoply of original songs, performed with double bass, tenor sax and gusto by the same cast of four, also help keep energy levels high, and although the acoustics of the venue mean that some of the faster-paced lyrics are a little tricky in places to follow, the message is clear: accessible, contemporary and enormously fun modern theatre does not need to strip a work of its original spirit in order to find its own.
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