‘A Christmas Carol’ was a ‘scared straight’ story about shared humanity that has been reduced to a cash-cow, allowing the audience off the hook because they themselves are not as bad as ...

Jean: So, A Christmas Carol is a story about a man named Ebenezer ... on Christmas Eve to go and see his family, because he's scared of losing his job. And Bob Cratchit cannot afford to lose ...

Following their disastrous production of "Peter Pan", the Cornley Polytechnic amateur dramatic society have been banned from participating in this year's "A Christmas Carol" with Sir Derek Jacobi.