Just as The Nutcracker has become an annual Christmas tradition for ballet lovers, theatre productions based on Charles Dickens’ cherished story have become popular festive fare. Brisbane’s shake & stir theatre co returns to QPAC for the sixth time with its award-winning adaptation of A Christmas Carol, complete with live music, Yuletide carols, innovative video design, lavish costumes and snow. It then revisits Canberra. In a 2020 review, Limelight gave the show four and a half stars, describing it as “great family entertainment” and “a wonderful, uplifting night out”.

Limelight Editor’s Choice

Brimful of song, humour, love, and lashings of festive joy, A Christmas Carol is a magical, grand-in-scale production. The perfect tradition for your family, A Christmas Carol is a reminder of the true meaning of the season, and the power of kindness and love.

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?