Portobello Pictures
"From the bravura start, when we are transported into the clanging bowels of a mine, to the astonishing reworking of Scrooge into a mean businesswoman...this provocative repositioning of the Dickens classic into a meditation on the problems of modern South Africa is breathtaking."
The New Statesman
"...this update brilliantly reinvests Dickens's message about sorely needed charity with a powerful immediacy. The African singing...is joyous...wonderful."
The Independent on Sunday
A vibrant, thrilling musical adaptation of the most enduring of all ghost stories.
This time Scrooge is a woman, the setting is today's South Africa.
These are exciting times... The rise of a new economic class. Others face harsh poverty while Scrooge is rich and successful. But she lives a lonely, loveless life. Three ancestral spirits come to visit. By the end she understands it is never too late to learn from the past, to change and live a meaningful and happy life.
Year of production: 2007
Adaptor & Director: Mark Dornford-May
Producer: Eric Abraham
Photography by Keith Pattison