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A Christmas Carol a Ghost Story PRESS RELEASE – Tuesday 4th February 2020 NEW IMAGES CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE Twitter / Facebook / Instagram /@XmasCarolLDN christmascarolonstage.co.uk Eleanor Lloyd Productions present the Nottingham Playhouse production of… A CHRISTMAS CAROL A GHOST STORY By Charles Dickens Adapted by Mark Gatiss Directed by Adam Penford • A BRAND-NEW ADAPTATION OF DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL BY MARK GATISS WILL OPEN AT NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE PRIOR TO ITS LONDON PREMIERE AT ALEXANDRA PALACE THIS CHRISTMAS • GATISS WILL ALSO PERFORM AS JACOB MARLEY IN THIS NEW PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY ADAM PENFORD • TICKETS GO ON SALE FOR THE PRODUCTION ON FEBRUARY 17th. Producer Eleanor Lloyd and Nottingham Playhouse have announced that a brand-new adaptation of Dickens’ classic Christmas tale written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Adam Penford will premiere at the Playhouse, prior to a Christmas run at London’s Alexandra Palace. A Christmas Carol will run at Nottingham Playhouse from Friday 30th October 2020, to Saturday 14th November 2020 before previewing at Alexandra Palace from November 27th. The production will have a press night at Alexandra Palace on December 3rd and play until January 10th 2021. Following his acclaimed performance as the king in Nottingham Playhouse’s award-winning production of The Madness of George III in 2018, also directed by Adam Penford, Mark Gatiss (Dracula, The League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who) leads an ensemble cast, in his own retelling of Dickens’ classic winter ghost story, filled with Dickensian, spine-tingling special effects. Prepare to be frightened and delighted in equal measure as you enter the supernatural Victorian world of A Christmas Carol. Mark Gatiss says – “A Christmas Carol’ has been absolutely my favourite story since I was, well, tiny. It’s an astonishingly powerful tale of life, love, loss and redemption and remains supremely relevant. But at its heart it is a ghost story and that will be at the core of my new version. A scary, thrilling, joyous adventure to get the blood piping on a freezing winter’s night. A Victorian phantasmagoria!” 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… The production will open first at Nottingham Playhouse directed by its Artistic Director Adam Penford. Nottingham Playhouse is dedicated to making bold and thrilling world-class theatre in the heart of Nottingham and was named Regional Theatre of the Year in The Stage Awards 2019. Over Christmas the production will transfer to Alexandra Palace. Originally built in 1875 the Alexandra Palace Theatre has been reawakened and its Victorian features have been restored, making it the perfect backdrop to experience this landmark production. Further casting will be announced in due course and tickets for both Nottingham and London are on sale to the general public from February 17th. -ENDS- For further information please contact The Corner Shop PR on 020 7831 7657 LISTINGS Eleanor Lloyd Productions present the Nottingham Playhouse production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL A Ghost Story By Charles Dickens Adapted by Mark Gatiss Directed by Adam Penford Nottingham Playhouse Wellington Circus, Nottingham NG1 5AF First performance: Fri 30 Oct 2020 Final performance: Sat 14 Nov 2020 Press performance: Tues 3 Nov 2020, 7pm Box office: https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/ 0115 941 9419 Recommended age 12+ Prices from £45 - £8.50 Alexandra Palace Alexandra Palace Way, London N22 7AY First performance: November 27th 2020 Final performance: January 10th 2021 Opening Night: December 3rd 2020 at 7pm Box office: christmascarolonstage.co.uk 0871 220 0260 (Calls cost 7p per minute) Recommended age 12+ Prices from £15 + Booking Fees INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, TWITTER - @XmasCarolLDN NOTES TO EDITORS Mark Gatiss Mark Gatiss has had a long and varied career as a writer and producer behind the camera, as well as being a critically-acclaimed actor and published author. His early success on television was as part of the comedy troupe The League of Gentlemen, for which he both wrote and appeared onscreen as various characters. He had a childhood passion for Doctor Who and has written for and starred in the modern revival since 2005. He was also the writer and executive producer of An Adventure in Space and Time, a 90- minute dramatisation of the genesis of the series as part of the show’s 50th Anniversary celebrations in 2013. Mark is the co-creator and executive producer of Sherlock, the hit BBC series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman which has seen unprecedented global success and in which he also plays Sherlock’s brother Mycroft Holmes. The show has won a total of nine Emmys and twelve BAFTAs across its four series. Mark’s other writing credits for television include episodes of Nighty Night (2004 – 2005), the ghost story miniseries Crooked House (2008) which he also executive produced, two episodes of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, his adaptation of HG Well’s The First Men in the Moon (2010) and all three episodes of the documentary series A History of Horror (2010) and its one-off sequel Horror Europa (2012), all of which he presented as well. Most recently he wrote and presented a documentary about British artist John Minton for BBC4 and penned an original ghost story entitled The Dead Room which he also directed. In 2017, he curated and directed Queers – a series of eight monologues for BBC Four to mark the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which saw the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality. Recent acting roles include The Duke of Marlborough in the BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated The Favourite (2018), Giles Winslow in Disney’s Christopher Robin (2018), Robert Cecil in BBC One’s Gunpowder (2017), Stephen Gardiner in Wolf Hall (2015), Peter Mandelson in James Graham’s Coalition (2015) for Channel Four and Tycho Nestoris in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2014-2017). In May 2019 it was announced that he will be starring opposite Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman in the screen adaptation of Florian Zeller’s The Father. On stage, he has starred alongside Tom Hiddleston in Coriolanus (2013), as Harold in Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band (2016) and as Doctor Shpigelsky in Patrick Marber’s adaptation of Turgenev’s Three Days in the Country for which he received the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In November 2018 he took the titular role in The Madness of George III at the Nottingham Playhouse - the best-selling show in the theatre’s history. He is the co-creator and executive producer of forthcoming BBC and Netflix drama Dracula. He has also written and directed an adaptation of M.R James’ Martin’s Close starring Peter Capaldi which will air on BBC Four this Christmas. Adam Penford biog Adam Penford became Artistic Director of Nottingham Playhouse in July 2017. Adam trained at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA) before going on to direct work nationally and internationally, directing both at the National Theatre and on Broadway. His work at the National Theatre includes A Small Family Business (Olivier) and the Dorfman Opening Gala (Dorfman). He was also the Revival Director of One Man Two Guvnors and the Associate Director on the National Theatre’s 50 Years on Stage. Since taking over at Nottingham Playhouse, Adam has directed the regional premiere of Wonderland by Nottingham writer Beth Steel, Holes by Louis Sachar and The Madness of George III starring Mark Gatiss, all to great critical acclaim. The latter was broadcast live to cinemas around the world by National Theatre Live on 20 November 2018. Eleanor Lloyd Productions Eleanor Lloyd Productions is a London based theatre production company. Current productions include site-specific Witness for the Prosecution which is in its third year of performances at London County Hall. Other recent productions include Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm which transferred from Shakespeare’s Globe to the Vaudeville, UK tours of Dusty, a new musical about Dusty Springfield by Jonathan Harvey, and Shakespeare in Love, the West End transfers of Nell Gwynn, My Night with Reg and Handbagged and three West End seasons and a Broadway season of 1984 by Duncan Macmillan and Robert Icke. Eleanor was named at 35 in the recent Stage 100 list. She is on the Boards of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT), League of Independent Producers, Stage One, Theatre 503 and Oxford Playhouse. www.elproductions.co.uk About Nottingham Playhouse For further information contact: • Hollie Anderson on 0115 8736242 and [email protected]. • David Burns PR on 07789 754089 or email [email protected] Nottingham Playhouse is dedicated to making bold and thrilling world-class theatre in the heart of Nottingham and was named Regional Theatre of the Year in The Stage Awards 2019. Nottingham Playhouse’s 2018 production of The Madness of George III was one of the first to be broadcast internationally by NT Live from a theatre outside of London and won the Whatsonstage Award for Best Play Revival and Best Supporting Actor in a play (for Adrian Scarborough’s performance as Dr Willis). In 2019 An Enemy of the People – directed by Adam Penford - starred Alex Kingston of Doctor Who and ER fame. Shebeen – commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse –Lava from spring 2018, and LIT from summer 2019 were world premieres, with Shebeen also winning the Alfred Fagon award. Nottingham Playhouse’s productions also tour nationally and internationally.
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