This fresh adaptation by Tim Carroll brings Charles Dickens’s world to life through inventive puppetry, towering ghosts that fill the stage, traditional carols and audience participation with spirited sing-alongs. Interactive performers mingle throughout the theatre, while beautifully detailed period costumes and sets create an atmospheric Victorian Christmas.
More than 175 years after Dickens first published A Christmas Carol, audiences still recognize themselves in Ebenezer Scrooge: someone who discovers that it’s never too late in life to choose kindness and human connection. For centuries, this iconic story has endured because its themes are still relevant today: What really matters to us? And can people truly change?
Part of the Shaw Festival at Harbourfront Centre.
Image: Sanjay Talwar as Ebenezer Scrooge, with the cast of A Christmas Carol (Travis Seetoo, Katie Ryerson, Jay Turvey, Graeme Somerville and Allison Edwards-Crewe) (Shaw Festival, 2025). Photo by David Cooper.
