Lyric Hammersmith, London: Barry McCarthy's take on Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas is a homely, flesh and blood old chap who snores, feels cold, goes to the loo, grumbles, enjoys a good meal, hates the cold and longs for summer. And yet he has a job to do, and it's Christmas Eve. McCarthy puts on his red gear, assembles his reindeer (a theatrical tour de force puppeted in two formats by David Emmings…
SOURCE: The Stage at 09:42AM on December 13, 2012