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Farndale Avenue ... Christmas Carol

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4w, 1m

Charles Dickens, David McGillivray, Walter Zerlin Jr.

David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin, Jr.
Loosely based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

In a festive mood, the ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society mount another assault on the classics with their stage version of A Christmas Carol.

Farndale Avenue ... Christmas Carol

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 1m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptation (Literature), Christmas/Holiday
  • Suggested Use
    • UIL Approved
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences

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Summary

In a festive mood, the ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society mount another assault on the classics with their stage version of A Christmas Carol. They enthusiastically portray a dizzy array of characters from the Dickensian favorite (and a few which aren't), engineer some novel audience participation while bravely contending with an intrusive PA system and a real Farndale first rap their vocal cords and feet around two original, show stopping songs.

"Another classic dramatic massacre that enthralls." - Independent

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  • Time Period 1980s
  • Additional Features Play with Music
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

"Another classic dramatic massacre that enthralls." - Independent

"Not since the Monty Python mob dressed up as The Batley Townswomen's Guild and re enacted the Battle of Pearl Harbor with their handbags have I tittered so much." - The Daily Mail

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Authors

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Charles Dickens

Author

David McGillivray

Walter Zerlin Jr.

Walter Zerlin Jr.
Walter Zerlin Jr was probably the only English barrister who regularly dragged up, tap-danced and conjured professionally on stage. For 25 years, he wrote plays with David McGillivray, among them 10 in the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society se ...
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