First published in 1905, Old Scrooge is a dramatized version of Charles Dickens' beloved Christmas tale, A Christmas Carol. With lively dialogue and engaging characters, Old Scrooge is a perfect choice for community and school theater productions or for anyone looking to experience a classic story in a new way.
There the orphan Pip is disturbed to meet an escaped convict, Magwitch, but gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives. How Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor, snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and 'great expectations', and grows through misfortune and suffering to maturity is the theme of one of Dickens's best loved novels. (Take from back cover of book.).