A Christmas Carol

“The talented Le Navet Bete give a whole new energy to this classic play…a real joy to hear the roaring laughter and screams of children (and adults)!”

~ The PRSD

Join the award-winning Le Navet Bete (Treasure Island, The Three Musketeers: A Comedy Adventure) again this festive season for a hilarious retelling of one of the greatest ghost stories ever told.

It’s Christmas Eve in Victorian London and old miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is settling down for the night when a clink, clank, clunk of chains resounds throughout the house like thunder, getting ever nearer. It’s going to be a very long night…

With rib-tickling comic twists and larger than life characters, Dickens’ festive classic receives a riotous reimagining, including giant exploding Christmas puddings, hypo-allergenic Christmas trees and a ‘Not So Tiny Tim’.

A collaboration with one of UK theatre’s best comedy writers and directors John Nicholson (BBC Radio 4, The Hound of the Baskervilles), this joyful, heart-warming tale is guaranteed to lift spirits and melt even the coldest of hearts this Christmas.

This show was originally a Le Navet Bete and Barbican Theatre Plymouth co-production.

A Christmas Carol was first performed on Friday 6th December 2013 at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, Devon, UK (with subsequent Christmas performances at the Athenaeum Theatre in 2017/2018 and the Exeter Northcott Theatre in 2021/2022).