THEATRE: A Christmas Carol at Worthing’s Connaught Theatre

It goes indoors.

Chapterhouse Theatre Company will be doing precisely that, to bring their production of A Christmas Carol to Worthing’s Connaught Theatre, on Friday, November 26 and Saturday, November 27.

Directing the show is company artistic director Rebecca Gadsby, who is promising something in keeping with the ethos of Chapterhouse’s outdoor productions.

“Obviously, it will be a different style of acting, but it will be much the same ethic, which is about being entertaining, offering an enjoyable theatrical experience.

“I started out nine years ago as an actor with the company.

I went away and started directing and came back and have been director with the company for five years now.

“It’s great fun.

“A lot of actors go into directing. Some people say that the best directors are people that are actors.

“I think it’s just where my creative talents lie.

“Some people say it’s because I am bossy! But I am just interested in having overall control of all the creative side rather than specifically concentrating on your own part or character.

“I like realising the overall vision of the piece.”

And what a vision it is with A Christmas Carol, a piece the company will be delivering in traditional style but with

modern effects. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is whisked away on a terrifying journey through the past and into the future, accompanied by three fearsome ghosts determined to make him realise the true meaning of Christmas.

The classic ghost story is transformed into a traditional production filled with period costumes, song, dance and an

original score.

“It’s a brilliant story. It has never been unpopular since it was written. It appeals to all our notions of what Christmas should be.

“There is a heart-warming story at the heart of it.

“So many of us know a miser, don’t we!

“It’s the grumpy old man syndrome, but taken to an extreme.

“o many people say that Scrooge is like their dads or their granddads.

“They get to a certain age and that’s what happens!

“But with Scrooge, you just think he is a grumpy old miser, but the interesting thing is that during the course of the play you come to realise what it is that has made him the way he is.

“It’s quite modern in that

way.”

Box office: 01903 206206 or online at www.worthingtheatres.co.uk