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Ding, dong! It's classic Dickens... with bells on! MIKE MULVIHILL reviews A Christmas Carol
There were two reasons I was dreading taking my teenage son to see A Christmas Carol. I reckoned I was in safe hands with Jack Thorne's acclaimed adaptation
Rhys Ifans and Christoper Eccleston have played Dickens's humbug in previous years, but this time it was the turn of Life On Mars star John Simm, who from the very start brings us a bellowing Scrooge raging at anyone who dares suggest that greed isn't good. It concerns Red (Lydia Rosa Morales Scully) and her grandma (Lindzi Germain), whose cottage wolfish property developers Cash and Carry (Andrew Schofield, right, and Keddy Sutton) want to bulldoze to make way for a car park. Much of the comedy comes from their increasingly outlandish schemes to remove Grandma, and how Red and her friend Blue (Adam McCoy) — writer Kevin Fearon and director Mark Chatterton make sure to be even-handed on Liverpool's football allegiances — team up to stop them.
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