The Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol fills the auditorium to the brim with mince pies, music and merriment. A unique staging immerses the audience in this uplifting story, writes Michael Holland.
Owen Teale, this year’s Ebenezer Scrooge, says, ‘This is the greatest ghost story ever told – a ghost story for all the family to share at Christmas.’
It was the team behind this production that attracted the actor to the role: ‘Matthew Warchus(Director) and Jack Thorne(Writer) and Rob Howell(Designer) coming together for one the greatest Victorian stories that still stands up today… I found it irresistible.’
Teale also took inspiration from the theatre being in the heart of Southwark, ‘where Dickens lived and extracted from this very area all the injustices he saw and the great characters he met. The Old Vic is like the beating heart of Southwark when we do this play and that makes it very, very special to do it right here where the story was born.’
Owen finds the themes in the play are very relevant today as we need to find compassion and charity for our fellow man: ‘I truly believe it has the power to trigger change for good.’
The Old Vic, The Cut, London SE1 8NB from Sat 12 Nov – Sat 07 Jan
Tickets: £10–£65 (premium, charitable and Old Vic Plus tickets available)
Audio Described: Fri 09 Dec, 7pm (Touch Tour 5pm)
Relaxed (also audio described and captioned): Sat 10 Dec, 1pm
Captioned: Mon 12 Dec, 7pm
For tickets and further information on A Christmas Carol, visit oldvictheatre.com
