Introduction

My college are going to be performing a production of A Christmas Carol over the December period.
When I first found out about this I was part intrigued, part hesitant about it. I was intrigued and excited as I have grown up with this story and am a big fan of the different portrayals of the novel. Such as the original book by Charles Dickens, the television adaptation directed by David Hugh Jones, as well as the new animated version starring Jim Carey. However, with my familiarity of the story, I was aware that it would most likely be quite a male dominated play but look forward to finding out Naomi's ideas.

We were told that her interpretation would be:

• Extremely character driven. - Based around each individual character filling the space.
• Based in the original period/era.
• Working from the outside-in. - Working first on the physicalities/gestures/stance/expression and then on the text analysis/thoughts/objectives/aims of the characters.
• Have quite a minimal set.
• Using full period costumes.

I greatly look forward to starting our work shops on our characters. This will be the first time I've started on the physicality of the character before emotions etc. so I'm curious as to how it will work for me.

- Ebony.