Olivia Shouler

As Hackney Empire celebrates more than 120 years at the heart of the local community, Artistic Director Yamin Choudury and the whole team have revealed details of the theatre’s Creative Futures endeavours for 2023.

It's always a hard task to 'put a spin' on a story as traditional and well known as Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's adaptation gives us a female Scrooge, Charlie Dickens as a magical narrator and a school of cold and hungry children, run by Scrooge's nephew and his wife, who help create a story to teach the miserly Scrooge a lesson.

As Hackney Empire celebrates 120 years at the heart of the local community, and in the wake of the recent release of the, 20 Years of Creative Futures Impact Report Artistic Director Yamin Choudury and the whole team have announced details of this summer's Artist Development Programme (ADP) project.