Review at a glance

Christmas requires ritual and tradition to get us through the cold winter months, and Jack Thorne’s version of A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic is one of the finer ones.

Performed in the round under a canopy of flickering lanterns, it transports you through the dank streets of a Victorian London haunted by poverty, to the bedroom of Charles Dickens’ infamous miser who requires multiple ghostly encounters to (re)discover the reason for the season.

Many erstwhile character actors have taken on the ragged mantle of Ebenezer Scrooge since the annual revival began at the Old Vic with Rhys Ifans in 2017 . Since then the festive boards have been trodden by Stephen Tompkinson in 2018 , Paterson Joseph in 2019 , Andrew Lincoln (livestreamed in the 2020 Covid shut

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