A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic: Warms even the coldest cockles

A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic: Warms even the coldest cockles

Paul Hilton is a spritely Scrooge in this annual tradition that never fails to make you cry, laugh, and get pelted with parachuting sprouts

Old Vic have pulled it off yet again – Christmas Carol is back on

With warm mince pies handed out as the audience found their seats it was already beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Old Vic for the ninth outing of Jack Thorne’s version of A Christmas Carol. Cast members ambled about the stage in the round, greeting all and wishing us Merry Christmas as […]

A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic: Twee as can be and a triumph nonetheless

A Christmas Carol | Old Vic | ★★★★★ The Old Vic’s annual production of A Christmas Carol has almost every sickly sweet ingredient to make it utterly detestable for any self-respecting Londoner: audience participation, children on stage, pleas for the poor. And yet! Every year, this Victorian sopfest has me weeping in my chair. The merriment kicks off before Act 1 has even begun, with audience members welcomed into the theatre by bonneted ushers …

A Christmas Carol - Old Vic, London

Adaptor: Jack Thorne Director: Matthew Warchus Paul Hilton shines in this beautifully staged, atmospheric, timeless tale of redemption in the Old Vic’s traditional festive production of A Christmas Carol that succeeds in evoking the magic of this time of year. Jack Thorne’s close adaptation of Dickens’ script quickly throws us into the life of miserly [...] The post A Christmas Carol – Old Vic, London appeared first on The Reviews Hub.

Review: A Christmas Carol at Old Vic

A special kind of show With warm mince pies handed out as the audience found their seats it was already beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Old Vic for the ninth outing of Jack Thorne’s version of A Christmas Carol, writes Michael Holland. Cast members ambled about the stage in the round, greeting all and wishing us Merry Christmas as market folk threw satsumas into the audience. The atmosphere became one of giving and of being jolly. …