A Christmas Carol
Comedy Theatre from 22 November 2024
Producers GWB Entertainment announced that Erik Thomson, one of Australia’s most loved stars across film, television and theatre will play the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol – Melbourne’s new festive tradition.
Erik will next be seen in Timothy David Piper’s upcoming feature Kangaroo Island that will have its world premiere at the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival. He recently starred in and produced the acclaimed ABC TV series Aftertaste as an internationally renowned yet volatile celebrity chef whose spectacular fall from grace sees him return to his home town in the Adelaide Hills, and featured in series including Critical Incident, C*A*U*G*H*T and Black Snow, all for Stan.
He also appeared in Robert Connolly’s feature film Blueback alongside Mia Wasikowska and Eric Bana, How To Please A Woman opposite Sally Phillips, James Ashcroft’s acclaimed feature thriller Coming Home In The Dark, which screened at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and Roderick Mackay’s The Furnace, which received critical acclaim at its world premiere at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
Erik is, of course, well known for his role as the head of the Rafter family in Australia’s top rating TV drama Packed to the Rafters. He won the AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2004 for his role in the film Somersault, and the Silver Logie in 2016 for his performance in Network Seven’s 800 Words, as well as for All Saints in 2003. He has been nominated a further eight times for the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor Award.
His theatre credits include the sold-out season of MTC’s The Speechmaker, The Splinter for the Sydney Theatre Company, and Julius Caesar, Twelve Angry Men, All My Sons and Angels In America for the Auckland Theatre Company, and most recently, The Puzzle for State Theatre Company South Australia.
“I am excited and truly honoured to be joining this beloved and internationally renowned production of The Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens’ masterful take on the essence of Christmas and its celebration of joy and connection, told through the redemption of the infamous tight-fisted debt collector Ebenezer Scrooge, is still as pertinent today as it was in the 19th century,” said Thomson.
Winner of five Tony Awards®, the smash-hit Old Vic production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic is conceived and directed by Matthew Warchus (Matilda the Musical) and adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), audiences are welcomed into an immersive experience, brimming with music and merriment.
***** ‘It wouldn’t be Christmas without it’ Arts Hub
***** ‘The must-see festive event of the year’ The AU Review
‘You’d have to be a real Scrooge to not be won over by this Christmas Carol’ The Age
Bookings: https://christmascarolaustralia.com.au/
