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Douglas Rowe returns this year to show a surprising new side of an old friend when he reads Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol by Tom Mula.

This headlong, hilarious romp through the gritty side of Victorian Christmases is a tale of redemption and remorse, the fear of loss and the joy of love, and the way we can find our own salvation in our care of others. Whether your introduction to Scrooge was from the book, the black-and-white movie with Alastair Sim, or the musical madness of Michael Caine and the Muppets, everyone is familiar with the story. But Marley is, after all, the first person mentioned in Dickens’s classic tale: “Marley was dead, to begin with.” When he finds himself in a very unsatisfactory afterlife, Marley seeks his own redemption by taking on the monumental task of redeeming that “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, covetous old sinner” Ebenezer Scrooge. His adventures form the basis of this delightful reading by a veteran actor of stage and screen.

Tickets available at www.ashlandnewplays.org and at Paddington Station.