Caro Moses interviews writer and director Alexander Knott at This Week London.
"CM: Can you start by telling us a bit about the narrative of the show? Many readers will of course be familiar with the story of 'A Christmas Carol', but this is slightly different, obviously.
AK: The initial notion was to tell the story of the Dickens classic from Bob Cratchit’s point of view. He’s an affable fella in the original novella, and even though he’s hard done by and overworked by Scrooge, he still manages to have a smile on his face. My contention is that underneath that painted smile, Bob must be seething inside.
Add to that idea the notion of the spirits of Christmas visiting many more people than just one old miser on that Dickensian Christmas Eve, and we have a sort of 'Cratchit’s Christmas Carol'."
See Dickens, "A Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick" from The Pickwick Papers, in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 2, and Little Dorritt, in Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 47.
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