A CHRISTMAS TALE Old Vic

At Charles Dickens’s funeral in Westminster Abbey in 1888 the Very Reverend Dean Stanley preached that Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was the finest Christmas Sermon in the English language. Matthew Warchus’s in-the-round production at The Young Vic with Rhys Ifans as Scrooge is a fresh and constant delight, thanks mainly to the carol and hymn singing, the ringing of hand-bells and the music of Christopher Nightingale There is a magical moment when snowflakes fall from the ceiling on to the audience and, amazingly, leave not a trace behind.