Jack Thorne’s stage version (Old Vic, 2017)
The play the Old Vic has staged every Christmas since 2017, as a script.
Give Scrooge a reason: a father who drove the family into debt, and a sister who comes back as the last ghost.
You want to read a play, or stage one, or you saw this production and want the words.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the night of the four visitors and the morning after.
Changes: a lot. Scrooge’s father is a drunk who ruins the family, Fezziwig is an undertaker, all three ghosts are women, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is Scrooge’s sister Fan.
Whose story is it?
Scrooge’s, and his family’s.
How much time does it ask?
80 pages, Nick Hern Books, new edition 2022. It premiered at the Old Vic in London on 20 November 2017.
Nick Hern Books, new edition, 20 September 2022: premiered at the Old Vic, directed by Matthew Warchus, with Rhys Ifans as Scrooge.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
Common questions
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in Jack Thorne's A Christmas Carol?
Scrooge's sister, Fan. In Thorne's version all three spirits are women.
More Christmas Carols: The Penguin Classics edition, ed. Michael Slater (2003) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition, ed. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (2008) · The Annotated Christmas Carol, ed. Michael Patrick Hearn (2004)