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Running Time
Approximately two hours, including a 20-minute intervalSuitable for ages
8+Tickets
PwC £10 Previews. Previews £13–£70, Off Peak £15–£80, Peak £15–£95. Premium and Old Vic Plus tickets available. A £2.50 transaction fee applies per booking (does not apply to OV TOGETHER Members).
Preview
PwC £10 Previews 12–17 NovAccess Performances
Audio Described:
Friday 12 December, 7pm (Touch Tour 5pm)
Saturday 13 December, 2pm (Touch Tour 11.45am)
British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreted:
Wednesday 10 December, 7pm
Saturday 13 December, 2pm
Captioned:
Saturday 13 December, 2pm
Monday 15 December, 7pm
Relaxed (also Audio Described, Captioned and BSL Interpreted):
Saturday 13 December, 2pm (Touch Tour 11.45am)
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Dates
12 Nov 2025–10 Jan 2026About the show
Matthew Warchus’ big-hearted, smash hit production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic returns to The Old Vic, joyously adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, His Dark Materials) and starring Paul Hilton (The Inheritance, Lady Macbeth, Slow Horses) as Ebenezer Scrooge.
A Christmas Carol fills the auditorium to the brim with mince pies, music and merriment. A unique staging immerses the audience in London’s longest running adaptation of this beloved festive favourite.
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Off-peak performances: 20–24 Nov 2025, 5–10 Jan 2026
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Photo: Hugo Glendinning

Paul Hilton

Paul Hilton
Theatre includes: Juno and the Paycock, An Enemy of the People, The Glass Menagerie, All New People, In Celebration, Riflemind, On The Third Day, Dr Dee (West End); The Inheritance (West End/Broadway/Young Vic); Hamlet Hail to the Thief (RSC); Polar Bears (Donmar); The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic); Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court); Othello, Peter Pan, Wonder.land, Mosquitoes, Three Sisters, The President of an Empty Room (National Theatre); Doctor Faustus (Shakespeare’s Globe). Television includes: A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, Slow Horses, A Very English Scandal, Casualty 1909. Film includes: Lady Macbeth, Wuthering Heights, Eternal Beauty, London Road, Klimt.

Rob Compton

Rob Compton
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Matilda the Musical, A Chorus of Disapproval (West End); Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads (Chichester); Bat Boy (Southwark Playhouse); Wonder.land (Palace Theatre, Manchester/Manchester International Festival/National Theatre); Mother Courage and Her Children (The Lowry, Manchester); All the Fun of The Fair (UK tour); As You Like It, Merlin and the Woods of Time (Grosvenor Park Open Air, Chester). Television includes: The Witcher, Grace, Whitstable Pearl, Senna, Andor, The Cage, Babs, Rellik, Ripper Street, Endeavour, Silent Witness. Film includes: Matilda the Musical, American Assassin.

Jamie Doncaster

Jamie Doncaster
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (West End); Muriel’s Wedding (Leicester Curve); Olivier Awards 2022 (RAH). Workshops include: Clueless the Musical (West End). Training includes: ArtsEd.

Geraint Downing

Geraint Downing
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); The Lord of the Rings (The Watermill Theatre, Newbury). Theatre as Composer/Actor Musician includes: Fires Our Shoes Have Made (C Venues, Edinburgh/Warwick Arts Centre); Jigsaw/A Typical Sister (Bridge House Theatre). Television includes: World On Fire.

Matthew Durkan

Matthew Durkan
Theatre includes: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (The Old Vic); The Man in the White Suit, Nell Gwynn (West End); Reykjavik (Hampstead); The History Boys (UK tour); Kiki’s Delivery Service (Southwark Playhouse). Television includes: Toxic Town, Daddy Issues, Outlander, Wedding Season, Alma’s Not Normal, Colosseum, Giri/Haji. Film includes: Creation Stories. Radio includes: Separate Tables, Turning Point: Behind Beyond the Fringe, Sleaze, Shandyland, Life Lines.

Lauren Jones

Lauren Jones
Theatre includes: Bonnie & Clyde (West End/UK & Ireland tour); The Addams Family (UK tour); Scissorhandz (Southwark Playhouse); Rebecca (Charing Cross Theatre); The Magician’s Elephant (RSC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Leicester Curve); Weit über 49 (Feierabendhaus Knapsack, Germany).

Rachel Moran

Rachel Moran
Theatre includes: Just For One Day, Groundhog Day, A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); & Juliet (West End/UK tour); Matilda the Musical (West End/International & UK tour); 13 Going on 30 (Manchester Opera House); The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (The Other Palace); Spend Spend Spend (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Jesus Christ Superstar (Barbican); My Fair Lady, High Society (The Mill at Sonning); Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith); The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz (International tour); Oliver! (Sheffield Theatres). Workshops include: Tammy Faye. Theatre as Associate Choreographer/Assistant Choreographer/Resident Director includes: Grease The Immersive Movie Musical (Evolution London); Gypsy, My Fair Lady, High Society (The Mill at Sonning).

Stuart Neal

Stuart Neal
Theatre includes: Aladdin (The Old Vic); 42nd Street, La Cage aux Folles, The Lord of the Rings, Evita, Mary Poppins, The Winter’s Tale, Harlequinade (West End); Quadrophenia (Sadler’s Wells); White Christmas (Sheffield Theatres); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Bridge); The Producers (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic); Carousel, Cats (UK tour); Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory, New York); Finding Neverland (A.R.T., Massachusetts); Pippin (Menier Chocolate Factory); Little Shop of Horrors (Kilworth House Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Leeds Playhouse); Piaf (Donmar); Follies (Opéra de Toulon). Television includes: EastEnders. Film includes: Blitz, Artemis Fowl, Cinderella, Les Misérables.

Claire O’Leary

Claire O’Leary
Theatre includes: The Wizard of Oz, Les Misérables (West End); The Borrowers (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Spring Awakening, Sweet Charity (Leicester Curve); Creatures of Habit (Cork Opera House). Workshops include: Saving Grace (Riverside Studios); The Boy in the Dress (RSC).

Alastair Parker

Alastair Parker
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Oliver! (West End); The Crucible (West End/National Theatre); The Magician’s Elephant, Matilda the Musical (RSC/West End); Jerry Springer: The Opera (West End/BAC/Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh); Treasure Island, 50 Years on Stage, People, The Merchant of Venice, Honk!, The Villains’ Opera (National Theatre); The Taxidermist’s Daughter (Chichester); BBC Proms: Sondheim at 80 (RAH); The Secret Garden (Leeds Playhouse); Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, HMS Pinafore (Regent’s Park Open Air). Television includes: The Witcher, Carnival Row, Whitstable, I Hate Suzie, Doctor Who, NT: 50 Years on Stage, BBC Proms: Sondheim at 80, Sinchronicity, Spooks. Film includes: Last Orders, London Road, Hitman and Her, A Quiet Courage.

Nuwan Hugh Perera

Nuwan Hugh Perera
Theatre includes: Life of Pi, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (West End); Amélie (West End/UK tour); Ballet Shoes (National Theatre); The Enormous Crocodile (Regent’s Park Open Air); The Lord of the Rings (The Watermill Theatre, Newbury); A Christmas Carol (Barn Theatre Cirencester); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Wilton’s Music Hall); Side Show (Southwark Playhouse). Television includes: A Service of Celebration for Commonwealth Day. Film includes: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

Parisa Shahmir

Parisa Shahmir
Theatre includes: Jesus Christ Superstar (The Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical, The Last Ship, Mamma Mia! (UK tour); The Snow Queen (Rose Theatre, Kingston); We Live in Cairo (A.R.T., Massachusetts). Film includes: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

Tanisha Spring

Tanisha Spring
Theatre includes: Groundhog Day (The Old Vic); Moulin Rouge! The Musical, The Prince of Egypt, Caroline, or Change, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (West End); Shuck ‘n’ Jive (Soho); Making Porn (Above the Stag); Big Fish (The Other Palace).

Kibong Tanji

Kibong Tanji
Theatre includes: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Misty (West End); The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho); Richard III, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Recognition (Fairfield Halls); The Famous Five: A New Musical (Chichester/Theatr Clwyd, Mold); All My Sons (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); The Sun, The Moon, And The Stars (Stratford East). Television includes: Munch. Film includes: The Lair.

Annie Wensak

Annie Wensak
Theatre includes: Groundhog Day (The Old Vic); My Fair Lady (West End/UK tour); Half a Sixpence (West End/Chichester); Jailhouse Rock (West End); Choir (Chichester); A Face in the Crowd (Young Vic); Sleepless: A Musical Romance (Troubadour Wembley Park); The Last Noël (Old Fire Station, Oxford); The Children (English Theatre Frankfurt); Moll Flanders (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Regent’s Park Open Air); The Sound of Music (Leicester Curve); Sister Act (Kilworth House Theatre); Singin’ in the Rain (The Courtyard, Hereford); Oliver!, Spend Spend Spend, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (UK tour). Television includes: The Bill, Casualty, Pennies From Heaven.

Connor Wood

Connor Wood
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Old Friends (West End); Stiletto (Charing Cross Theatre); Library of the Imagination, Hello, My Name Is… (Royal Court); Cinderella (Oxford Playhouse); High Society (West Green House Opera, Hampshire). Training includes: Royal Academy of Music.
Olive Mac Mahon
Olive Mac Mahon
A Christmas Carol is Olive’s professional stage debut. Training includes: Optimum Performing Arts, Stage One Theatre School. Olive would like to thank her friends and family, especially her big sister for being her biggest inspiration and supporter.
Freddie Merritt
Freddie Merritt
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Encanto (The Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford). Television includes: Teeny Tiny Creatures, Cooking with the Gills, Awesome Animals and Mini Me. Freddie is thrilled to be returning to The Old Vic for his third year as Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. Freddie is confident and loves the stage. His favourite subject at school is maths and his favourite sport is basketball.
Hannah Slater
Hannah Slater
A Christmas Carol is Hannah’s professional stage debut. Hannah’s first love has always been theatre, especially musicals. She performs regularly in local musical theatre productions to raise funds for the Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity in Aylesbury and trains at the Adele Peters Performing Arts School (APPAS). Hannah is a highly skilled swimmer and has her own parrot called Kiwi.
Vinnie Stone
Vinnie Stone
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic). Vinnie has always had a love for and a calling to the stage. He has performed in the Young Voices Choir at London’s O2 Arena and is a student at his local stage school. Vinnie also takes guitar lessons and enjoys playing in his spare time. Other than acting and performing, Vinnie has a passion for the environment and ocean. He’s raised money and awareness to help save the future of our ocean. Vinnie is excited to return for his second year as Tiny Tim in The Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol.
Alan Berry
Alan Berry
Theatre as Musical Director/Musical Supervisor includes: A Christmas Carol, Aladdin (The Old Vic); Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Princess Theatre, Australia); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/West End/Broadway); Hairspray, Come From Away, The Commitments, Matilda the Musical, Avenue Q (West End); A Knight’s Tale (Manchester Opera House); Redlands (Chichester); Kiss Me, Kate (UK tour); Ghost the Musical (Asia tour); A Little Princess (Southbank Centre); Big Fish (The Other Palace); Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory). Theatre as Associate/Cover Conductor includes: Shrek the Musical, Hairspray, Spamalot (West End); A Christmas Carol (Comedy Theatre, Australia); Tammy Faye (Almeida); Local Hero (Chichester).
Luke Daniels
Justin Pearson
Martin Robertson
Clare Taylor
Gareth Ellis
Jack Thorne
Matthew Warchus
Matthew Warchus
Theatre includes: Oedipus, The Constituent, Lungs, Present Laughter, ‘Art’, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional, Speed-the-Plow, OLD VIC: IN CAMERA — A Christmas Carol, Faith Healer, Three Kings, Lungs (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day, The Norman Conquests (The Old Vic/Broadway); Life x 3 (The Old Vic/National Theatre/Broadway); Matilda the Musical (RSC/West End/Broadway/International tour); Ghost the Musical (West End/Broadway/South Korea); La Bête (West End/Broadway); God of Carnage, ‘Art’ (West End/Broadway/LA); Juno and the Paycock, Deathtrap, Endgame (West End); Our House, Much Ado About Nothing (West End/UK tour); Boeing-Boeing (West End/Broadway/UK tour); The Lord of the Rings (West End/Toronto); Buried Child, Volpone (National Theatre); Follies (Broadway); True West (Donmar/Broadway); The Unexpected Man (RSC/West End/Broadway); Hamlet, Henry V (RSC); Betrayal, Death of a Salesman, The Plough and the Stars, Fiddler on the Roof, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, True West, Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse). Opera includes: Falstaff, Così Fan Tutte (ENO); The Rake’s Progress (RBO/WNO). Film includes: Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, Pride — BIFA Best British Independent Film, Simpatico. Matthew was an Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse and Artistic Associate at The Old Vic before being appointed Artistic Director of the theatre in 2014.
Rob Howell
Rob Howell
Theatre includes: Eureka Day, Lungs, Present Laughter, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional, A Flea in Her Ear, Inherit the Wind, Speed-the-Plow, Complicit, OLD VIC: IN CAMERA — A Christmas Carol, Faith Healer (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol — two Tony Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Scenic Design, The Norman Conquests, Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Broadway); The Hills of California (West End/Broadway); Matilda the Musical — Olivier Award for Best Set Design, Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (RSC/West End/Broadway/International tour); The Ferryman — two Tony Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Scenic Design (Royal Court/West End/Broadway). Film as Costume Designer includes: Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical. Rob has also worked at other venues including the National Theatre, Almeida, Donmar, Young Vic, Bristol Old Vic, Chichester, RBO and Metropolitan Opera.
Christopher Nightingale
Hugh Vanstone
Hugh Vanstone
Theatre as an Associate Artist includes: The Constituent, ‘Art’, No’s Knife, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional (The Old Vic); Groundhog Day, A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic/Broadway/Australia). Theatre includes: Juno and the Paycock, Back to the Future, Anything Goes, The Height of the Storm, Mary Poppins, The Birthday Party, Venus in Fur, Dreamgirls (West End); Matilda the Musical (West End/Broadway); Hillary and Clinton, The Boys in the Band (Broadway); Double Feature, The Snail House, The Forest (Hampstead); Exit the King, The Red Lion (National Theatre). Awards include three Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards and a Molière Award. Hugh is an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Simon Baker
Simon Baker
Theatre includes: The Constituent, Present Laughter, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional, High Society, Electra, The Norman Conquests, Hedda Gabler, OLD VIC: IN CAMERA — A Christmas Carol, Faith Healer, Three Kings, Lungs (The Old Vic); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/West End/Broadway/Worldwide); Groundhog Day, A Christmas Carol — Tony Award for Best Sound Design for a Play (The Old Vic/Broadway); Wise Children (The Old Vic/UK tour); Matilda the Musical — Olivier Award for Best Sound (RSC/West End/Broadway/Worldwide); Hamnet (RSC/West End); Shakespeare in Love (West End); The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Hex, The Light Princess, Amen Corner (National Theatre); Wuthering Heights (National Theatre/UK & International tour); Buddha of Suburbia (RSC); North By Northwest, Blue Beard (UK tour); Malory Towers (York Theatre Royal/UK tour); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe).
David Grindrod CDG for Grindrod & Burton Casting
Jessica Ronane CDG
Lizzi Gee
Alan Berry
Alan Berry
Theatre as Musical Director/Musical Supervisor includes: A Christmas Carol, Aladdin (The Old Vic); Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Princess Theatre, Australia); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/West End/Broadway); Hairspray, Come From Away, The Commitments, Matilda the Musical, Avenue Q (West End); A Knight’s Tale (Manchester Opera House); Redlands (Chichester); Kiss Me, Kate (UK tour); Ghost the Musical (Asia tour); A Little Princess (Southbank Centre); Big Fish (The Other Palace); Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory). Theatre as Associate/Cover Conductor includes: Shrek the Musical, Hairspray, Spamalot (West End); A Christmas Carol (Comedy Theatre, Australia); Tammy Faye (Almeida); Local Hero (Chichester).
Charlie Hughes-D’Aeth
Charlie Hughes-D’Aeth
Theatre includes: The Brightening Air, Oedipus, The Real Thing, The Constituent, Machinal, Just For One Day, Pygmalion, Groundhog Day, Sylvia, Eureka Day, Camp Siegfried, Lungs, A Very Expensive Poison, Present Laughter, The American Clock, A Monster Calls, Girl from the North Country, The Divide, A Christmas Carol, Woyzeck, ‘Art’, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional (The Old Vic); Cymbeline (Shakespeare’s Globe); When Winston Went to War with the Wireless (Donmar); What’s New Pussycat? (Birmingham Rep); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (UK tour); Consultant Voice Coach for Matilda the Musical (Resident 2010–14), The Gods Weep, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC).
Danièle Lydon
Jamie Manton
Chloe Christian
Bec Chippendale
Megan Rouse
Lucy Gaiger
Lucy Gaiger
Theatre includes: The Constituent, Lungs, A Christmas Carol, ‘Art’ (The Old Vic); Juno and the Paycock, The Hills of California, Much Ado About Nothing, Venus in Fur, Bombay Dreams, Into the Woods (West End); Mamma Mia! (West End/Broadway/Worldwide); The Ferryman (Royal Court/West End/Broadway); The Phantom of the Opera (West End/UK tour); The Light in the Piazza (West End/Chicago); Arcadia, The Madness of George III, Wind in the Willows, Cardiff East, The Skriker, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre); Young Marx (The Bridge); Heartbreak House (Almeida); The Blue Room, Nine (Donmar); 8 Hotels (Chichester). Television includes: In the Long Run. Film includes: Lift, Wicked, The Madness of King George, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical.
Luca Panetta
Emma Laxton
Emma Laxton
Theatre as Sound Designer includes: WALDEN, That Face, My Name Is Rachel Corrie, Emilia — Oliver Award for Best Sound Design (West End); The Collaboration (Broadway); A Single Man (RBO/Factory International, Manchester); Dancing at Lughnasa (National Theatre); Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); A Face in the Crowd, Hamlet, Blood Wedding (Young Vic); Robin Hood: The Legend. Rewritten, Antigone (Regent’s Park Open Air); Trouble in Butetown, The York Realist, The Recruiting Officer, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus (Donmar); Living Newspaper, A Kind of People, Superhoe (Royal Court). Theatre as Associate Sound Designer includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Equus, War Horse (West End).
Helen Siveter
Campbell Young Associates
Campbell Young Associates
Theatre includes: Oedipus, Eureka Day, Present Laughter, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, The Master Builder, High Society, Electra, Sweet Bird of Youth (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Broadway); Hercules, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Waiting for Godot, Hello, Dolly!, 42nd Street, Crazy For You, Rosmersholm, Gypsy (West End); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, The Hills of California, Back to the Future, Leopoldstadt, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Ferryman, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (West End/Broadway); Kinky Boots, Calamity Jane (UK tour); The Fear of 13 (Donmar); Sing Street (Lyric Hammersmith); Starlight Express (Troubadour Wembley Park); Top Hat (Chichester); Guys & Dolls (The Bridge); Come Fall in Love, A Knight’s Tale (Manchester Opera House); Muriel’s Wedding (Leicester Curve).