It goes with out saying that Love Actually, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this 12 months, is among the world’s best-loved Christmas motion pictures.

In reality, simply six years in the past a lot of the solid reprised their roles from the traditional festive film for the 2017 brief movie sequel Red Nose Day Actually, in help of Comic Relief.

And now director Richard Curtis has immediately introduced Christmas Actually, which gained’t be a stage adaptation of Love Actually however a festive theatre present for the charity.

According to the BBC, Christmas Actually will likely be a range efficiency filled with dwell music, poetry and comedy this December.

The filmmaker stated: “We hope it’ll be a real chocolate box – or perhaps advent calendar – of delights.”

Curtis has promised audiences that Christmas Actually, which is able to run for eight performances on the Royal Festival Hall from December 7-11, will likely be “noisy and emotional and full of surprises and jokes, with some proper celebrity sparkle.”

The director continued: “I remember I didn’t always love the Christmas shows I took my children to, but I always took them to one,. So we thought it would be fun to make a show for Christmas that really is fun for all the family. And then the idea of doing it also to raise money for Comic Relief made the idea irresistible.”

Curtis, who gained’t reveal the superstar visitors simply but, added: “We hope to cram a wealth of wonder into 90 noisy minutes. I suspect some members of the audience will go away with presents they weren’t expecting; there’ll definitely be some rowdy singing along and some unexpected famous people will pop up on the screens and even in person.”

The variety show will feature a live band playing Christmas songs, as actors and celebrities “deliver poetry, Christmas cracker jokes and children’s letters to Santa”.

All this will likely be in entrance of a backdrop of dwell illustrations by some well-known artists.

Tickets for Christmas Actually go on sale at 10am BST on Wednesday here.