There were ghosts in this play alright, many more than Dickens ever intended. Past, present and future but also the many phantom productions that have succumbed in this COVID-19-ravaged festive season. At times it felt as if...
Read MoreIf Vic and Bob wrote a panto and had it produced by the League of Gentleman and performed by the cast of Big Train, it would probably look a bit like Spymonkey’s Christmas Carol. Not exactly like it, however. This new...
Read MoreMy first encounter with A Christmas Carol featured a load of Muppets, witnessed by my primary school self on the screen of the communal telly-on-wheels rolled out for the end-of-term film. Twenty-odd years later, the prospect of...
Read MoreKnowledge is a burden, don’t you find? If only we could go through life ignorant of food banks, climate change and Donald Trump, how easy getting up in the morning would be. And if I didn’t already know A Christmas Carol...
Read MoreOn the sunniest days in Southern California, my mind takes me to the dark underbelly of Victorian England conjured up in one of the most chilling scenes in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Scrooge sees a vision of the future in...
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