Overview
- Mischief Theatre’s farce is running at the Apollo on Shaftesbury Avenue under director Matt DiCarlo.
- The show presents A Christmas Carol as a bungled amateur staging, built on tightly choreographed slapstick and metatheatrical gags.
- Co-written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, the production features Daniel Fraser as director Chris Bean, who casts himself as Scrooge.
- Reviews praise the ensemble’s timing and technical craft, with The Times awarding four stars and noting sustained laugh-out-loud set-piece comedy.
- The West End engagement is scheduled through late January, with a UK tour to follow.