The Rep’s festive play should be scarier
A Christmas Carol: a Ghost Story is part of a long lineage of spooky Victorian tales - but it doesn't bring the fear factor
Dear Patchers — Christmas seems to come early in Birmingham, if the 1 November arrival of the German Market is anything to go by. Showing slightly more restraint, The Rep recently opened its big festive production — this year it’s Mark Gatiss’s A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story. With an emphasis on the spooky aspects of Charles Dickens’s oft-adapted tale…
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