The Chimes

Archive Listings for The Chimes

T1130253450 (SOUTHWARK04) Producer Southwark Playhouse. Adapted by Les Smith. Music John O'Hara. Director Gareth Machin. Design Tom Rogers.
7 Dec 04 to 1 Jan 05	Southwark Playhouse, Inner London :: V226 listing details L282129741
T01894188203 (DRILLHALL04) Semi-staged rehearsed reading. Adapted from the story by Charles Dickens. Christmas and New Year is a time to settle old accounts and look forward with hope to the future. Not so for Toby Veck. Unable to settle his own meagre debts, browbeaten by the hypocrisy of rich philanthropists and worried for his family's uncertain future, he begins to doubt the good in poor people and their place in the world. His cry of despair echoes up to the church tower from which the spirits and goblins of the bells have always watched over him and his family. They must now teach him a lesson; that he might learn how bad the bad are born.Adapted by David Willis. Adapted by Nicolas Bloomfield.
19 Dec 04	RADA Studios (formely Drill Hall Arts Centre), Inner London :: V197 listing details L298987812
T885735980 (TRNOR00) Company Studio Theatre Company.
14 Dec 00 to 16 Dec 00	Theatre Royal, Norwich :: V72 listing details L107590478

Details

Play :: The bells ring an Old Year out and a New One in, as Toby Veck sees his life changed by oppression and drudgery. Companion to A Christmas Carol, this is a seasonal story full of magic and pathos, which points up society's attitude towards the poor and homeless.

Author

Charles Dickens