In this smart, sharp update, dance company ZooNation flips A Christmas Carol into a contemporary hip-hop tale. Dannielle “Rhimes” Lecointe’s production is deft and tender-hearted, bubbling over with great jokes and fabulous moves.
ZooNation has a knack for retelling classics, with a back catalogue including The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and the irresistible Some Like It Hip Hop. Here, Charles Dickens’s Ebenezer Scrooge becomes present-day Ebony, a “monochrome, meticulous” fashion designer with a dash of Cruella de Vil about her. After drinks at the Bar Humbug, her staff strip off their Christmas jumpers to work in Ebony’s icy white atelier – no colour allowed.
