About the Show

Scrooge, visited by Marley's ghost, warned of eternal damnation if he doesn't change.

Ebenezer Scrooge, a wealthy but miserly businessman, is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, on Christmas Eve. Marley warns Scrooge that he will suffer a fate of eternity in damnation if he does not change his cruel ways. Throughout the night, Scrooge is visited by three ghosts: the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. They show him his past, present, and future, highlighting the consequences of his selfish behavior.

This stage adaptation by Jack Thorne ('Harry Potter and the Cursed Child') with direction by Matthew Warchus returns to The Old Vic.

This production is recommended for ages 8+.

Critic Reviews (33)

"a terrific spectacle – yet the show’s customary stabbing potency doesn’t hit home soon"
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"This show tugs shamelessly but unsentimentally on the heartstrings"
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"Thorne’s playwriting really is appalling – the text is so Simple Simon it grates"
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"John Simm brings dry humour to Dickens's tale of redemption"
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"this production is by no means evangelical or overly preachy."
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For a previous production

Matthew Warchus’ production seems ... to want to have its Christmas cake and eat it. Many of the lines hit even harder now than they did in 2017, with Dickens’ ideas about society, and how it cares for its poor and vulnerable, ringing out like a bell.
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For a previous production

Matthew Warchus’s magnificent staging provides everything you might want from a theatrical adaptation of Dickens’s timeless morality tale.
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For a previous production

The entire experience feels far more cinematic than theatrical, and that transfers a different kind of spectacle.
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