Image: Hanson Leatherby

From the Old Vic’s tried and true Jack Thorne adaptation to Sh*t-faced Theatre’s A Pissedmass Carol, in the year 2025, there’s barely a muppet left in London who hasn’t put on their own version of the Dickensian classic. And The Great Christmas Feast, an “immersive” version of A Christmas Carol now in its eighth year from The Lost Estate, is easily up there with the best.

First things first: if the word immersive gives you shivers, fear not. The immersion largely refers to the dining element, with the show acted out between three courses of food (one ghost per act), as well as the lack of stage (the acting takes place around rather than in front of you). Meanwhile the waiting staff are (variably) in character as Victorian butlers, stopping at tables to despair a

See Full Page