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A Christmas Carol, Immersive LDN
We descended into the basement of an unassuming entrance on South Molton Lane. With a glass of mulled wine (a great start), we were welcomed into Scrooge’s Parlour. The room was decorated with wardrobes, shelves full of books, fire place and Scrooge’s bed. We sat on benches around the edge of the room. There was…
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A Christmas Carol, Chickenshed
Review by Melinda Haunton I’m going to warn you right away: I have absolutely no reviewer chill about this show. I spent my (first) time at Chickenshed getting into the spirit of a huge, diverse, inclusive production from this completely admirable social educational endeavor. I bought raffle tickets. I had interval ice cream for the…
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A Christmas Carol, The Old Vic
The Old Vic’s Christmas Carol is enough to make a merry man out of the worst seasonal curmudgeon.
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A Christmas Carol , LOST Theatre
This musical version, with music by Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast) and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime) and the Dickens story adapted by Ahrens and Mike Ockrent (Me and My Girl) is rarely staged in the West End and I am wondering why this American classic has never taken off in the UK. Everyone…
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The Fitzrovia Radio Hour’s A Christmas Carol, The Vaults
This classy but more adult interpretation of the classic feels inspired but not as slick as works such as Peter Pan Goes Wrong. There is a farce but it is short running time means that it lacks the momentum to get the audience going and would have perhaps worked better as a sketch rather than…
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The Flanagan’s Collective’s A Christmas Carol, Above the Arts Theatre
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View from the Cheap Seat 