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Old Vic's 'A Christmas Carol' Returns With Acclaimed Paul Hilton as Scrooge

Critics single out sensory staging that delivers an emotional punch in its latest London run.

Overview

  • Now in its ninth year, the production plays at The Old Vic in London through 10 January 2026.
  • Reviews from The Times, the Evening Standard and City A.M. praise Hilton’s performance, the ensemble and the show’s overall impact.
  • Director Matthew Warchus presents an in-the-round, participatory staging featuring a lantern canopy, flying fruit, snowfall and an audience-assisted feast.
  • Jack Thorne’s adaptation foregrounds Scrooge’s formative trauma, offering a contemporary psychological reading of Dickens’s tale.
  • Warchus notes in the programme that the show will continue as long as audiences want it, with Rupert Goold set to assume the theatre’s artistic leadership in 2026.