The Dickens Christmas Carol - First TV socioplay (2006)

In 2006, the only version of "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens that has not yet been made (after theatrical, musical, cinematographic and lyrical) was a TV socioplay with actors and spectators called to sharing their stories with the old Scrooge who receives the visit of three Christmas Ghosts. This edition, realized with the advice of Malcolm Andrews (director of the Dickens Fellowship) and the collaboration of Silvia Giulietti for the clips in S. Maria in Trastevere, is based on a new reduction by Alfredo Antonaros (in the eno-gastronomic dimension of Gambero Rosso) and proposes to the group of participants a multimedia play where the languages of theater, cinema, and video-jockey intertwine puppets and lyric music. Ottavio Rosati shoots during summer videos of the ghost of Marley and the three Christmas spirits (Past, Present and Future) in the magical ceiling of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere and makes a video-karaoke of Marley's visit to Scrooge that opens the Dickens tale. The interpretation of Francesco Carnelutti, that in the role of Marley manages not to blink for seven minutes, is extraordinary and moves critics and spectators. Due to organizational problems, the final socioplay does not take place live as Rosati wanted but is recorded in the Teatro del Città del Gusto in Rome one week before Christmas to be broadcast for an hour on the day of Christmas Eve with various daily replicas from 25 to 26 December. Marley's video-karaoke was mounted as a short and gave life to various replicas of the event.