I am adapting A Christmas Carol for a play.
I cannot help noting, however, that under its old prudent management policy, Scrooge & Marley would not have needed this week's bail out at the taxpayers' expense.
Sunday, 28 September 2008
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Didn't Scrooge make a lot of money from short-selling?
I am a sucker for the Alastair Sim version but was surprised by how much I liked the Patrick Stewart.
Is it for a theatre group or a school adaptation.
Ben Murphy - Scrooge seemed to have been involved in such disgraceful activity. He even waited until Christmas morning to buy the Turkey, and he did not increase Bob's salary until Boxing Day. ;-)
Holfordwatch - The Stewart version is the most faithfull to the book. Stewart himself is rightly full of fear and emotion, rather than being some increasingly sentimental fop like Sim! ;-)
It is for a school play. So each child has a speaking part, Scrooge now has five annoying nephews, and there are three Marley Brothers as ghosts...
Why not a revisionist version - A Christmas Carol told from the point of view of the goose. Ebenezer Scrooge, seen as a benefactor by the geese, because of his courageous stand against the annual slaughter, turns traitor to the species...
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