The Royal Shakespeare Company will present a stage adaptation of The Box Of Delights as its Christmas production this year.

Written by Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1935, the story follows the adventures of an orphaned schoolboy who finds himself the guardian of a small wooden box with powers beyond his wildest dreams...

The show opens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre on Halloween and runs until Sunday 7 January.

The RSC’s autumn/winter season also features an adaptation of Thomas Heywood’s Elizabethan comedy-romp, The Fair Maid Of The West - showing in the Swan Theatre from Saturday 2 December to Sunday 14 January - and a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (opening early 2024).

To check out the whole RSC autumn/winter line-up of shows and book tickets, visit the Company’s website: rsc.org.uk