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  • What’s On
  • 2023
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Family / Kids
  • Theatre

shakestirchristmascarol23 A Christmas Carol Shake & Stir Theatre Co, QPAC Family / Kids, Theatre A Christmas Carol

8 - 14 Dec 2023
Concert Hall
Buy Tickets
$65 - $75 *
* A transaction fee of $7.20 applies.
1 hour 30 minutes
no interval, subject to change without notice

Overview

By Charles Dickens

Adapted and created by Shake & Stir Theatre Co.

This December, the award-winning stage spectacle – Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – is returning to QPAC! Set to take over QPAC’s iconic Concert Hall in 2023, A Christmas Carol is a magical, grand-in-scale production brimful of song, humour, love, and lashings of festive joy – perfect for the entire family.

It’s Christmas Eve and Ebenezer Scrooge is counting down the seconds until the silliness of the season passes. Deeply entrenched in his own misery, Scrooge receives a visit from four ghosts who whisk him away on a journey through Christmases past, present and future. Here, he revisits fragments of his life and is faced with a number of choices. Redemption is his for the taking – but is Old Scrooge capable of changing his ways before it’s too late?

Complete with live music, yule-tide carolling, innovative video design, lavish costumes and, of course, snow, A Christmas Carol, is quite simply “the most uplifting theatrical experience you’ll have this year” (The Courier-Mail).

Important Information

Age Recommendation

Recommended for those aged 8 years and older.

Warning

This production contains supernatural themes, haze, smoke, strobe effects and loud music.

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Concert Hall Visual and Sensory Guide

The Concert Hall Visual and Sensory Guide [PDF, 5MB] provides information on what you can expect while visiting QPAC.

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Child

Children aged from 3 to 15 years old.

Family

2 Adults and 2 Children. Must be purchased in one transaction.
Select “Family of 4” in your basket from the drop-down option.
B-Reserve: $199

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Gallery

  • Image Credit: David Fell
  • Image Credit: Craig Wilkinson
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  • Image Credit: David Fell
  • Image Credit: David Fell
  • Image Credit: David Fell
  • Image Credit: David Fell
  • Image Credit: David Fell
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  • Image Credit: David Fell
  • It’s the perfect Christmas play, really, and now I want to see it again. And again. And next year as well.
    The Courier-Mail
  • ★★★★★
    Phenomenal … I can honestly say this is the best show I’ve seen all year.
    Broadway World
  • ★★★★★
    Superb. The visual elements surpass anything we’ve seen before.
    XS Entertainment
  • ★★★★★
    Perfect. It wouldn't be Christmas at QPAC without it.
    Stage Whispers

Cast

Will Carseldine
Eugene Gilfedder
Nick James
Nelle Lee
Mia Milnes
Bryan Probets
Tabea Sitte
Nick Skubij
Lucas Stibbard

Creatives

  • Adaptor Nelle Lee
  • Director Michael Futcher
  • Designer Josh McIntosh
  • Composer Salliana Campbell
  • Lighting Designer Jason Glenwright
  • Video Designer Craig Wilkinson
  • Sound Designer Guy Webster

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