Months of delights in store as major theatre streams more plays to homes nationwide

Audiences across the country are promised treats aplenty in a new season of plays streamed live from the Old Vic in London.

Now in its fourth year, Jack Thorne’s A Christmas Carol will return to the venue from December 12 to 24. It will play live, as a full-scale production, for 16 performances only. Some 80,000 tickets will be available for the run.

The production will go on sale to the public on November 9 with tickets from £10 to £65 with £80 souvenir ticket, including a limited edition poster, also available. Audiences only need to buy one ticket to watch with a group if they plan on watching together on the same screen.

The production follows the success of previous live-streamed shows in the Old Vic: In Camera season – Lungs, Three Kings and Faith Healer. They were watched by over 30,000 households from 73 countries.

The Old Vic promises “we’ll be back” as it announces a new series of shows including A Christmas Carol (photo: Manuel Harlan)

Artistic director Matthew Warchus said: “When lockdown began in March I think none of us predicted the length of the journey we’re now on.