Mangan – hair off-white (bleached, for the part, although some at the school gates just thought he’d had a breakdown), beard slate grey (all natural), eyebrows Alastair Darling-black (again, his) – has hobbled up to the top floor of the Old Vic for a coffee, having slipped and hurt his ankle during the previous night’s performance. Young people can enjoy the play, he says of the Dickens classic, but “it’s also a story about middle-aged regret… It’s the ultimate midlife crisis story, in a way.” That sort of comes with the territory of playing Ebenezer Scrooge, as he is in Jack Thorne’s jubilant adaptation of A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic for the next six weeks, but it’s also just part and parcel of being 53. Stephen Mangan has been thinking about his past, present and future a lot lately.
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