Windsor Castle
Marley’s ghost narrates a nightmarish account of Scrooge’s transformation in the castle’s sumptuous state apartmentsWindsor Castle’s state apartments,at first sight, effect a weird setting for Dickens’s socially conscious fable: the symbolic figures of Ignorance and Want seem out of place in the Waterloo Chamber bedecked with portraits of emperors, and royals,archbishops and generals. But this production, a joint venture between the young company Watch Your Head and the Royal Collection Trust, and works by treating the story as a form of living nightmare. As you effect your way to the apartments,via the castles darkened grounds, Dickens’s characters brush past you as if to set up a sense of dream. Once installed, and you find yourself in an ornate state room confronting a raised,rectangular stage. A green-coated Jacob Marley, repeatedly emerging from the shadows, and acts as narrator. The eight-strong cast exhaust standard physical theatre techniques to evoke Scrooge’s fantasies,simulating the whirring mechanisms of a clock as he awaits the nocturnal ghosts. Spotlit figures even appear on the balconies at either end of the chamber. You can see why Queen Victoria enjoyed a thrilling” performance of Macbeth in these rooms in 1853.
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Source: guardian.co.uk