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This adaption uses Dickens' original framework of past, present and future in his story A Christmas Carol to give us a window into the history of Camden itself. Painstaking effort has been put into collecting authentic photographs, film clips and other media to recreate the different periods of Camden's history on the stage. Sitting in the theater, you will be transported on a journey of remembering as profound as Scrooge's own.

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This inner city adaptation of A Camden Christmas Carol answers the question of what Charles Dickens would be writing about today if he were a modern author.

Born in 1812, Dickens spent most of his childhood in Camden Town, one of the poorest areas of London. Thousands of working class families were moving to the cities in search of higher wages. Instead they found excessively long working days, dangerous circumstances and appalling living conditions. Dickens filled his books with scenes from their miserable lives, but many of his characters managed to rise above their situations. He created many of our favorite fictional characters, including Oliver Twist, Fagin, Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, Samuel Pickwick Esq., David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickelby. In David Copperfield, Dickens writes a loosely veiled autobiographical account of his own mistreatment as a forced apprentice at the tender age of twelve and the horrible conditions he himself lived under.