BINGLEY Little Theatre is delighted to be producing a world premiere in the form of A Christmas Carol, a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ festive tale from their award-winning writer-composer team, Sally Edwards and Katy Grainger.

This new adaptation of A Christmas Carol is creating quite a buzz with tickets are selling well already – not least in part due to the well-deserved excellent reputation of the writer and composer, Sally and Katy, who have collaborated to great acclaim on several youth theatre productions including Once, Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Elvis and Brewster’s Millions amongst others. Katy is a music therapist with the charity Nordoff Robbins as well as working as a composer and accompanist for theatre productions and workshops and Sally works as a librettist as well as writing and adapting for the stage. Local audiences may have heard her libretto for Ben Crick’s Yorkshire Oratorio and her narrative script for Geoff Hannan’s The Penhill Giant, both of which had their premieres at Skipton Town Hall.

This new adaptation of A Christmas Carol has been given the full Edwards and Grainger treatment – a multi-role cast of experienced actors appearing with child performers from Kaleidoscope, Bingley Little Theatre’s youth training section. The production contains live music, puppetry (by the talented Sam Bailey) and the script has some added comic material that Sally hopes ‘won’t cause Mr Dickens to spin in his grave too much’.

Alan Stockdill plays Ebenezer Scrooge in a part he says he was ‘born to play’. Alan was most recently seen at the Arts Centre in Bingley Little Theatre’s production of When We Are Married, and is a successful playwright and director too. Other excellent performers from Bingley Little Theatre include Brad Moxon, Liz Hall, Paul Chewins, Vickie Bandy, Eleanor Jolley and Emma Victoria Smith amongst others. And not only does this production sound like a real pre-festive treat, A Christmas Carol is also on the GCSE English syllabus so will be an ideal production to take teenagers to and make the story come alive – educational and entertaining. What more could you want?

A Christmas Carol is at Bingley Arts Centre: December 2 – 7, 2024 (with a Saturday matinee as well as an evening performance).

Tickets are available via the website at https://www.bingleyartscentre.co.uk/events/2024-12-02-blt-presents-a-christmas-carol