A Christmas Carol - Patrick Stewart

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Entertainment Opened 7 December 2005, Closed 31 December 2005

Albery Theatre St Martin's Lane, London

Patrick Stewart in his award-winning one man show A Christmas Carol which he has adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens for the stage himself.

Patrick Stewart, who plays all the characters in Dicken's classic Christmas tale himself, won the Olivier Award for 'Best Entertainment' when he performed A Christmas Carol in London at The Old Vic Theatre in December 1993. When he staged the production in New York he won the Drama Desk Award for 'Outstanding Solo Performance'.

"Supremely entertaining and supremely intelligent" The New York Times

"Patrick Stewart'a excellent one-man version of A Christmas Carol reminds us of Dicken's political passion... Obviously there is pleasure in watching the consummate skill with which Stewart assumes a character, creates a mood, or highlights Dicken's surreal imagination... Stewart's exhilarating solo performance is clearly based on a love of Dickens and a belief in this fable's eternal political relevance." The Guardian

"Unexpectedly beautiful and moving" The New York Post

"Patrick Stewart is an effective storyteller and, after a slow start the performance finally began to beam itself up to the back of the gallery... The most successful characterisation is Ebenezer Scrooge who is played without a hint of caricature. The moment in which the old miser splutters and chokes before emitting his first laugh for several years, is truly golden and most deservedly received a spontaneous round of applause." The Sunday Express

"This is storytelling on stage, with all the pleasures and problems that phrase implies. Stewart portrays every character in the story of Scrooge's spiritual conversion from misanthrope to genial uncle - plus several bells, a violin and a church organ. It's a mammoth task, and some of the characterisations suffer accordingly from a lack of definition or conviction... That said, it's a performance of spectacular vigour." The London Evening Standard