A Christmas Carol, the Radio Play: Live on Stage

Date:

7 November 2025

Time:

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Frankwell Quay, Shrewsbury, SY3 8FT

Tom barker shrewsbury

About this event

Live on stage and in person, television favourites Colin Baker (Doctor Who, The Brothers) and Peter Purves (Blue Peter, The Office) lead the cast in a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic.

The play also features a rare, specially recorded appearance by Tom Baker (Doctor Who, Monarch Of The Glen) as Jacob Marley!

Presented by the Crime And Comedy Theatre Company as a radio-play-live-on-stage, the setting is a radio studio, the actors ready as if for a radio broadcast, and the sound effects are created live, transporting the audience to Victorian London, for this 180th-anniversary production of Dickens’ timeless tale of charity, forgiveness and redemption at Christmas.

“Colin Baker gives a mesmerising performance… Peter Purves sets the scene perfectly… Wonderful… Storytelling magic… The audience were spellbound throughout!” Back To Theatre

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