Written by Mary Eliott Nelson and Directed by Dominic Swarbrick Its A Wonderful Life is a stage adaptation of Frank Capras masterpiece film. This is the saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been squashed by family obligations and civic duty, and whose guardian angel has to descend on Christmas Eve to save him from despair, and to remind him by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born that he has had, after all, a wonderful life.