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Streaming until February 28, 50mins originaltheatreonline.com
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This streamed version of A Christmas Carol, which has been The Old Vic’s sell-out Christmas show every year since 2017, is back with Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead and This Life star) playing Scrooge.
The bearded Lincoln cuts a dash. The trouble is, to convince us that he is an unswayable misery, he continually shouts. It’s a tad exhausting. The real star here is Matthew Warchus’s heart-melting production, which I remember filling The Old Vic with flying fruit and veg and its audience – now sadly missing – munching mince pies.
The split-screen editing here is slick, and a hatful of carols and handbells makes a Dickens of a racket. The three ghosts of Christmas are played by women and the childhood of Scrooge is a full psychodrama, with an expanded role for Ebenezer’s cruel dad.
Mandy McCoy wants you to listen.
She knows that you will look. That you will see her wheelchair and how her fist steers the stick that makes it stop or go. That you might notice that her head wobbles a tad to the right, but maybe not because her smile is big and blushed with joy when her blue-green eyes meet yours.
Mandy wants people to look into her eyes.
“That tells me that you respect me,” she said.
For that, she is grateful because respect she knows is earned, more so when your body can’t move the way it should, and especially when the muscles in your mouth can’t keep pace with the train of thoughts in your mind.
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