Welcome to Victorian London and the home of Charles Dickens. You are Dickens’ guest of honour as, tonight, he unveils a ghostly new Christmas story. The candles gutter, the snow falls, a world of storytelling, feasting, and Yuletide fantasy unfolds...What will you explore first?

Charles Dickens – writer, performer, occasional magician – is preparing his famous annual feast at his home near Regents Park.

This year is very different. Charles has spent months stalking the City at midnight; locked in his study, weeping and gaffawing at who knows what; ushering vast theatrical machines into his home in the pre-dawn light.

Tonight, you, and his other guests, will discover why. For tonight, ‘A Christmas Carol’, the greatest festive tale ever told, will be born.