You can see Simon Callow in A Christmas Carol from 8 December to 12 January. Following three critically-acclaimed, sold-out seasons on stage in London’s West End, Simon Callow brings Charles Dickens’ beloved classic A Christmas Carol to the big screen in December 2018. Tickets to the stage production at the Arts Theatre are still available. Will Ebenezer Scrooge, tight-fisted, cruel and bitter, finally re-join the human race and learn to embrace the truly generous and humble spirit of Christmas? In the one-man stage adaptation, the audience is taken on a man’s astonishing journey through his past, his present and (terrifyingly) his future, led by his three ghostly guides. The theatre version is pure theatre, the film, pure cinema, proving how phenomenally rich this favourite of all Christmas stories is.” Simon Callow Fri 19.06 EDT I n terms of what we know about them, the contrast between our two greatest men of letters, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens, could scarcely be sharper. Shot entirely in an abandoned warehouse, it takes the viewer indoors and outdoors, through the seasons and across the haunted city of London. ![]() Thousands of fans in Britain and America eagerly awaited each new installment of his stories. Dickens was one of the first true celebrity authors. As we worked on the show, right from the beginning we saw that it might make a wonderful film, quite different from the stage show, drawing the viewer even more closely into contact with the story-teller, using the matchless poetic resources of the camera to summon up the many worlds through which Dickens takes us and the miser, Ebenezer Scrooge. Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Charles Dickens, in this lively, colorful biography. On Tuesday 11 December the stage-to-film adaptation, reimagined especially for cinema, will be released in 444 cinemas across the UK and Ireland by leading event cinema distributors CinemaLive.īased on Charles Dickens’s own performance adaptation, Simon and director Tom Cairns have created a one-man cinematic extravaganza of festive storytelling that is both heart-warming and deeply moving.Ībout the cinematic adaptation, Simon said “When Tom Cairns and I started working on our one-man version of A Christmas Carol, we were very excited by the possibilities of putting the audience in direct contact with Dickens, who is even more vividly present in it as a narrator than in his other books, he climbs into your head, he is always by your side, the master conjuror and also the commentator. If you miss tickets to the hit show, you will have another opportunity to see it as it’s heading to cinemas in December. Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley 176pp, Weidenfeld, 12.99. Simon Callow snagged a key role in Season 2 of The Witcher, but the veteran Brit actor is probably familiar to fans from a range of classic performances. ![]() This year’s production is bound to be a sell-out, too, but don’t fret. Simon Callow assesses novelist Jane Smiley's biography of the 'first celebrity writer', Charles Dickens Skip. For the past three years, Simon Callow’s critically-acclaimed production of Charles Dickens’ classic festive tale, A Christmas Carol, has wowed sold-out audiences.
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