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A Christmas for Carol

A Christmas for Carol (2015) was a theatre production by Rogaland Theatre. A Christmas for Carol was based on a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, written by Yngve Sundvor. The production was performed at the theatre's main stage.

Yngve Sundvor directed it.

Nina Ellen Ødegård interpreted the role of Carol.

A Christmas for Carol received two nominations for The Hedda Award 2016. The production was nominated in the production of the year category. Nina Ellen Ødegård was nominated in the best leading actress category.

Rogaland Theatre aims to make A Christmas for Carol into a pre-Christmas tradition, and revived it in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Information

(Objekt ID 50497)
Object type Production
Premiere Navember 13, 2015
Produced by Rogaland Theatre
Based on A Christmas for Carol by Yngve Sundvor; A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Audience Children (from 10)
Language Norwegian
Keywords Christmas Production, Corona-production, Theatre, Performance for children
Running period Navember 13, 2015  —  December 22, 2020
Website Rogaland Teater
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At the website of Rogaland Theatre the following, among other things, is written about A Christmas for Carol:

"We all love the universe Dickens draws up for us. The London fog, the burlesque characters, the evil against the good, the rich against the poor, the adventurous and the magical! What if this universe from 200 years back also looks like the one we will meet in our own future? In true Dickensian spirit we make a Christmas carol, or a carol for Christmas, if you like. In it, we take a sneak peek into the future, and a look back at the past through the eyes of the misanthropist, cynical career woman Carol."

SOURCES:

Rogaland Theatre's repertoire archive, donated by Rogaland Theatre, 24.01.2018

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 15.09.2015

Rogaland Theatre, www.rogaland-teater.no, 11.05.16, http://www.rogaland-teater.no/program/a-christmas-for-carol

Rogaland Theatre, www.rogaland-teater.no, 04.12.2018, https://www.rogaland-teater.no/program/a-christmas-for-carol-2018

Performance dates
December 1, 2020Hovedscenen, Rogaland Teater New opening
Navember 26, 2019Hovedscenen, Rogaland Teater New opening
December 4, 2018Hovedscenen, Rogaland Teater New opening
December 5, 2017Hovedscenen, Rogaland Teater New opening
Navember 18, 2016Hovedscenen, Rogaland Teater New opening
Navember 13, 2015 20:00 – Hovedscenen, Rogaland Teater Worldwide premiere
Press coverage

Lillian Bikset, Alle tiders juleeventyr (literally: A Christmas Carol for all times), Dagbladet November 14 2015:

"In style and content A Christmas for Carol moves effortlessly between past, present and future. (...) We are some - not many - years into the future. The climate disaster is a fact. Over town lies smog so thick mobile phones no longer work. Electricity blackouts are so frequent that pen and paper again have replaced computers. There's a lack of medicines. People starve. Neo-liberalism decides how to share the values that are left. The result is a world very much like the one Charles Dickens lived in. (...) Sundvor's version of A Christmas Carol has turned Scrooge into a middle-aged woman - Carol, played by Nina Ellen Ødegård - but the characteristics are the same. Carol Stendahl is grumpy, grim and greedy, but prefers to look at herself as the responsible and everybody else as systematic wasters. Ødegård lets a fragile social insecurity shine through the strict facade, a clumsiness that contributes to explaining the change, when that comes."

Awards - Nominations (1)