The Ghosts of Dickens

This full-length play concerns the dramatic, little known events that inspired Charles Dickens to write A Christmas Carol. He was haunted all of his life by his father’s stint in prison, a ruined childhood, and the death of his wife’s seventeen year old sister--with whom he was believed to have been in love. Much of The Ghosts of Dickens is structured after A Christmas Carol, but the familiar characters are replaced with the most significant people in Dickens’ life. Many of the lines of dialogue are culled from letters by Dickens and the other characters, such as his father, his wife, and Thackeray.