This December, Auckland Live will partner with acclaimed Australian company Shake & Stir Theatre Co to bring the award-winning stage spectacle - Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to The Civic in Auckland. The strictly limited season of eight performances runs from Tuesday, 2 December to Sunday, 7 December, with four weekend performances for the whole family to attend.
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ebenezer Scrooge is counting down the seconds until the silliness of the season passes. Deeply entrenched in his own misery, Scrooge receives a visit from four ghosts who whisk him away on a journey through Christmases past, present and future. Here, he revisits fragments of his life and is faced with a number of choices. Redemption is his for the taking – but is Old Scrooge capable of changing his ways before it’s too late?
This magical, grand-scale production is brimful of song, humour, love, and lashings of festive joy. Shake & Stir’s A Christmas Carol has become a much-anticipated annual tradition in Australia, and since its 2018 premiere, this heart-warming stage show has captured the hearts of over 127,000 people across seven return seasons.
Shake & Stir Theatre Co’s Artistic Director, Ross Balbuziente, says, “Its sentiment resonates more profoundly than ever, reminding us of the enduring themes of love, forgiveness, and generosity that make the holiday season truly magical.”
Complete with live music, yule-tide carolling, innovative video design, lavish costumes and, of course, snow, A Christmas Carol, is quite simply “the most uplifting theatrical experience you’ll have this year.” (The Courier-Mail).
