ABINGDON’S newest theatre troupe has sold out its very first production and raised hundreds of pounds for a local charity in the process.

The LAMPS collective of writers, actors and producers is putting on its own interpretation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, with puppets.

The two-man comic show, Scrooge, opened at Abingdon’s Unicorn Theatre last night and runs until Sunday.

Organisers have pledged to give 20 per cent of their profits from Friday, Saturday and Sunday to Blue Skye Thinking, the child cancer research fund set up by the parents of five-year-old Abingdon boy Skye Hall. He died after a battle with a brain tumour in August.

Actor and puppeteer Chris Matthewman, of Kennington, said: “It’s a madcap, musical, two-man variation on the classic Dickens tale, presenting what we hope is the true spirit of Christmas.

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