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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Matthew Warchus’s magnificent staging provides everything you might want from a theatrical adaptation of Dickens’s timeless morality tale.
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The entire experience feels far more cinematic than theatrical, and that transfers a different kind of spectacle.
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“The Old Vic’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ is a festive feast for the senses, it evokes childlike wonder and will leave everyone in a better mood.”
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The first half was a bit too broad and noisy to tug on your heartstrings … happily, the second half stepped up into a higher register, thanks to Christopher Nightingale’s joyful choral arrangements. The Christmas miracle arrives in the manner of a very posh panto … and it hits the spot.
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“There is so much joy in this play that it’s hard to choose a moment that’s better than the rest, although if pushed to, we would have to pick the final feast sequence. It’s clever, funny, and the audience participation raises the play to a whole new level...and it’s better to be there to see and feel it than to be told about it. It’s the experience you see; this play is what Christmas should feel like, and it's something to keep in your heart all year long.”
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" ‘A Christmas Carol’ teaches us anything, it’s that hindsight is a wonderful thing, and if you are seeing this awesome adaptation for the first time, you’ll definitely be properly bowled over by it. "
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Warchus enveloped a bustling production within the embrace of an audience held rapt at every turn. Composer and arranger Christopher Nightingale (a current Tony Award nominee for his score for this show) merits the highest praise.
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