A Christmas Carol

Felipe Fuentes: Scrooge

Maximiliano Gallardo: Ghost of the Future

Gaspar Martinez: Little Boy, Boy Scrooge and Nephew.

Vicente Carmona: Jacob, Cratshit.

José Tomas: Ghost of the Present.

Carlo Schiappacasse: Ghost of the Past.

Act 1

Scene 1

It was London, 1843, during Christmas, there was a man named Scrooge that was working in his office with his employed Cratshit. Whenthe nephew of Scrooge enters in the room.

(There are two desks, with their respective chairs and a clothes hanger with the hat and the coat of Scrooge)(Lights turn on)

Nephew: (Happily) Hi uncle, merry Christmas.

Scrooge: (Sirius) Nonsense.

Nephew: (Animated) Christmas is not nonsense uncle. You don’t mean that I’m sure.

Scrooge: (In a bad mood) Oh, but I do. Merry Christmas ¿What reason you have to be merry? You are poor.

Nephew: (Happy) Oh, come on, ¿What reason you have to be unhappy?  You are rich enough.

Scrooge: (Angry) Bah, nonsense.

Nephew: (compassionate) Don’t get angry uncle.

Scrooge: (Angry) What else can I be? If it’s going to be my decision, every person that says merry Christmas should be boiled in his own pudding.

Nephew: (Unhappy) Uncle!

Scrooge: (Angry) Keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in my.

Nephew: (Slow)Don’t be angry uncle, (happily) comes dine with as tomorrow.

Scrooge:  (Stubbornly) Never. (Sirius) Good afternoon.

Nephew: (Unhappy) I’m sorry with all my heart, to find you so stubborn, but I will keep my Christmas humour to the last, so, merry Christmas uncle and a happy new year.

Scrooge: (Sirius) Good afternoon.

Nephew: (Happy) Merry Christmas Mister Cratchit.

Cratchit: (Softly) Merry Christmas sir.

Scrooge: (Shouting) Good afternoon.

(Nephew gets out of the scenery, a seconds after he leave the scenery Scrooge and Cratchit finish their work and Cratchit helps Scrooge to put on his coat and hat)

Scrooge: I suppose you will want all Christmas free.

Cratchit: (Shy) If is convenient sir.

Scrooge: (Embittered) Is not convenient and is not right. If I deduct half a crown you would consider an abuse of me. But it’s not an abuse when I pay wages in a day without work.

Cratchit: (Softly) Is only one time a year sir.

Scrooge: (Sarcastic) Good excuse robbing a man every December 25. You will be here at first hour in the morning tomorrow, if you want to conserve the work.

(Scrooge and Cratshit leave the scenery, lights off)

           

Scene 2

(Scrooge is in pyjamas and he is reading in his couch, when he suddenly hears the sound of bells, then he hears footsteps and chains moving, and finally a ghost appears in the room)

Scrooge: (Confuse and frightened) But… What do you want of my?

Jacob: (Ghost voce)You don’t believe me?

Scrooge: (Confident) I don’t, because you maybe arean undigested bit of beef or a piece of undercooked potato.

Jacob: (In that moment delivers a huge shout) I’m wearing the chains I forge in my life and now I have to carry them for the eternity.

Scrooge: No, no you were always a good man of business.

Jacob: (Shouting) Business? Humanity was my business. (He waits a few seconds and then he continues) Hear me; I am here tonight to warn you that you have a chance of escaping of my destiny. You will be visited by three sprits. The First will visit you tomorrow at 1:00. The Second will visit you the next day at the same hour. The Third will visit you the next night at mid night.

(Jacob shout and then he disappears, lights off)

Scene 3

(Scrooge is in his bed sleeping when he awake with the sound of a bell. His bedroom was full of light and a spirit was in his room)

Scrooge: (Exhausted) Are you the spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to my?

Past: I’m

Scrooge: (Confuse) Who and what are you?

Past: I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Scrooge: (Calm) What brings you here?

Past: Your welfare. Take my hand and come with me. 

(Scrooge and Past gets outs the scenery, lights off)

(There is a boy reading, Scrooge and Past enters in the scenery, lights on)

Scrooge: (Happy) Oh, I remember this place, I was a boy here.

Past: This are only shadows of something that has been. (The ghost to a pause and then he continues) The school is not completely empty, there is a solitary boy,abandoned by his friends, is still in the school.

Scrooge: (Unhappy) Poor boy.

Past: Let’s see another Christmas.

(Scrooge and Past left the scenery, lights off)

(There are three desks with their chair and one person in each chair, lights on, Scrooge and Past enters in thescenery)

Past: Do you know this place?

Scrooge: (Happy) Of course, I was an apprentice here. And there is the old Fezziwig.

(A bell rings and Fizziwig stop working)

Fezziwig: (Happily) No more work tonight , is Christmas. It’s time to close put a way everything the party will began.

(In that minute people enters in the local and they started dancing, then lights off)

Scene 4

(Scrooge is in his bed sleeping when he awake with the sound of a bell. His bedroom was full of light and a spirit was in his room)

Present: Come Ebenezer Scrooge, and know me better. I am the ghost of Christmas Present. You have never see the lights of me before.

(Scrooge shakes his head)

Scrooge: (Timdly) Spirit conduct me where you want, if you have something to teach me, let me profit by it.

Present: Touch mi clothes.

 (When Scrooge just touches the clothes the lights go out)

(There is a table with chairs and people in the room, Scrooge and Present are in the room seen all that happens in Cratchit house, in that moment, Cratchit enters in the room with Tim)

Cratchits wife:How did Tim behaves?

Cratchit: As good as gold.

(Then Cratchit family sits on the table)

Cratchit: Merry Christmas to all my dears.God bless as.

(And the rest of the family folow he)

Scrooge: (Fearful) Spirit tell me,Tim will live.

Present:I see an empty seat,in a corner in front of the chimney,and a crutch without an owner carefully preserved. If this shadow don’t change at the future the boy will die.

Scrooge:(loud)No,no

(Bells rang and the lights off)

Scene 5

                   (There is low light,Scrooge is now with the third ghost)

Scrooge:I am in presence of the ghost of the Christmas future?You will show me the shadows of the things that not happen, but will happen in a time before.

Future: (The ghost says yes with the head)

Scrooge: guide me spirit,guideme.

(Lights off)

(They appear in a graveyard, lights on.)(Future is pointing a stone)

Scrooge: Spirit before I approached to the stone you are pointing, can you answer one question. Are these the shadows of things that would happen or shadows may happen?

(Future continuous pointing the stone and Scrooge saw that the inscription was his name)

Scrooge: (Frightened)No, no spirit I change give me a chance, chance.

(Lights off)

Scene6

(Lights on, Scrooge is on his bed awake and surprise, and he is laughing)

Scrooge: (while walking in the room) The spirits have giving me another chance. I don’t know what to do. (He saw his calendar)Today is Christmas, I have to remedy all the things I do.

(Scrooge leaves the scenery, lights off)

(There are two desks, with their respective chairs, lights on; Scrooge is sited in one of them, in that minute Cratchit enters in the office.)

Scrooge: Hello…and what do you mean by coming here at this time day?

Cratchit: (nervous)I am very sorry sir. Is only ones a year, it should not be repeated.

Scrooge: Now, I will tell you what, my friend. I will not hold up this longer, and therefore I am about to raise your salary and will strive to help your family. Merry Christmas Bob.

(Lights off)

The end