

Marleys Ghost
Charles Dickens
What happens to Ebenezer Scrooge’s mean, sour, pruney old business partner after the original story ends?
Chained and shackled, Jacob Marley is condemned to a hellish eternity.
He’s even given his own private tormentor: a malicious little hell-sprite who thoroughly enjoys his work.
Desperate, Marley accepts his one chance to free himself: to escape his own chains, he must first redeem Scrooge.
So begins a journey of laughter and terror, redemption and renewal, during which Scrooge’s heart, indeed, is opened, but not before Marley – in this irreverent, funny and deeply moving story – discovers his own.
"Nothing less than an anthem to human nature, to imagination, and to the wonder of a compelling story told by a wondrous storyteller… In Mula’s warm and inviting hands, Marley becomes a tortured but poignant and ultimately redeemed soul who personally stage-manages Scrooge’s reformation and finds his own redemption therein. An inspired and moving story that makes all that old stuff about ghosts and graves seem both immediate and revelatory."
— Chicago Tribune
"Tom Mula [blends] a Dickens sensibility with a taste for fairy tales and contemporary wit… thoroughly charming – a holiday treat."
— Daily Herald (Chicago)
"Of all the holiday shows dotting the theatrical landscape, none shines brighter than Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol."
— The Life
"Delectably zany… inspired theatre… gives the audience cause to ache, and to laugh, and in the end, to exalt."
— City Beat
Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol (Mula) is a comedy play written by Tom Mula and published by Dramatists Play Service .
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