Who takes care of the caretakers? Who gives gifts to the gift givers? People like Peter Cratchit often get forgotten about because people are so busy asking him for help. It can be exhausting. This play is quite lyrical and lovely how it shows how easy a kind heart can be burnt out when they forget WHERE their kindness stems from. A wonderful sequel to a Christmas Carol that also gives honor to other religious denominations as well, by way of Scrooge himself. Consider adding this to your holiday programming!

When you have a tale like "A Christmas Carol" its difficult to imagine anyone creating a new twist for it, but Kerr has and in an expert fashion. While the piece is set long after Scrooge's night with the spirits, as a wonderfully written story in which Peter Cratchit has reached a crossroads in his life and has to be shown where his choices could lead. Its a wonderful play with a great sense of community and I can imagine would be great to produce. My heartiest congratulations Kerr, you know how to keep Christmas all the year!

A crafty follow up to the Charles Dickens’s Christmas classic, A Christmas Carol. Slyly managing to bridge Victorian charity and the modern world of social insurance and non profit organisations, Lockhart extends the pageant of memorable characters, a Christmas gift for director, actor and designer all year round! With underlying, subversive, knotty reversals yet keeping the well-loved story set pieces, this is both rueful rumination and a warm-hearted family entertainment, as double edged as the real life character of Dickens himself.