In the footsteps of the master
FOR British actor Clive Francis, reading Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is a bit like reading the Bible. “It’s cleansing,” he explains. “It goes through all the emotions and you come out a better person at the end of it.”
Francis appears in his adaptation of the classic Christmas morality tale at the Everyman Theatre in Cork from Sunday as part of a national tour. The 66-year-old actor has been performing A Christmas Carol since 2000. He played the central character, Ebenezer Scrooge, in the Royal Shakespearean Company’s production in 1994. The RSC version was adapted by John Mortimer, and Francis says that vast production, complete with musical numbers, is one of the highlights of his lengthy career.
