Jenny Coverack

with Wessex Actors Company in

"A Christmas Carol"

Charles Dickens' story, extolling the virtues of Christmas, is a favourite with audiences everywhere. In this exciting and unusual version by regional creative team, Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith, with original music by Tom Johnson, the ghosts make the running. With glee and with plenty of music they transform the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge into a real human being. In time honoured fashion, he ends up by getting the Christmas Message.

Everyone's favourite characters are here in this feel-good family show: Scrooge himself, Bob Cratchit, Old Fezziwig, the ghostly Jacob Marley, Belle, Ebenezer's one time sweetheart, and, of course, Tiny Tim.

Jenny on right - click to enlarge

A strong cast of five includes Peter Townsend as Scrooge, energetically supported by Richard Randall, Merck Pearlstone, Bryony Growdon and Jenny Coverack. The play is directed by Wessex Actors Company Artistic Director, Michael Barry, with scenic design by Alan Daniel and costume design by Carolyn Free.

On Tour

The Wessex Actors Company's tour of this entertaining production runs from late November through to early January, with eighteen venues in theatres, arts centres and village halls across five counties.

'A Christmas Carol' was performed at:

• 2003
• • 4/1 Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset (01308 427183)
  • 3/1 Dumbleton Village Hall, Glos (01386 881478)

• 2002
• • 19/12 Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis (01297 442394)
  • 18/12 Nether Stowey Village Hall (01278 733100)
  • 17/12 Athenaeum Theatre, Warminster (01985 213891)
  • 14/12 Brent Knoll Village Hall, nr Brean (01278 760986)
  • 13/12 Butterleigh Village Hall, Devon (01884 855278)
  • 12/12 Blockley Village Hall, Glos (01386 701163)
  • 11/12 Cotswold Playhouse, Stroud (01453 760900)
  • 10/12 Weymouth Pavilion (01305 783214)
  • 9/12 Ondaatje Hall, Blundells School, Tiverton (01884 232350)
  • 7/12 Old Town Hall, Midsomer Norton (01761 419133)
  • 6/12 Morchard Bishop Village Hall, Devon (01363 877572)
  • 5/12 Ampney Crucis Village Hall, Glos (01285 750788)
  • 4/12 Assembly Rooms, Glastonbury (01458 834677)
  • 30/11 Regent Centre, Christchurch (01202 499148)
  • 28/11 Kempsford Village Hall, Glos (01285 810699)

Full details and several downloadable pictures, some at high resolution suitable for printing, are to be found on the Wessex Actors website.

No enlargement here - yet these thumbnails suggest the atmosphere of the performance

Jenny wearing top hat - click to enlarge