A Christmas Carol for Kilcullen

Kilcullen Drama Group's first production of the new season will open on November 24. It will be a stage version of A Christmas Carol from the book by Charles Dickens.

The production is to be directed by Mischa Fekete, who has already cast some of the key characters with Kilcullen Drama Group stalwarts Bernard Berney, who plays Ebenezer Scrooge, and Vivian Clarke playing the Bob Cratchit part.

It will be a mammoth production in terms of the group's usual endeavours, with over 40 people in stage parts, including up to 18 children.

"Eilis Phillips and Mischa have been working very hard, calling anybody who has been involved with drama in Kilcullen in the past to get them to come on board," one member of the group told the Diary. "It will be without doubt the biggest project ever undertaken by the Drama Group."

The production will include a musical chorus, and the Diary understands that this side of things will be managed by Monica Martin.

It will run for 12 nights only.

Brian Byrne.