A Christmas Carol: the story for all seasons
From Victorian penury to Caribbean party music, new productions at Leeds Playhouse and Northern Stage in Newcastle revisit Dickens's festive favouriteIt isn't only the ghosts of Christmases past, present and future that haunt Robert Pickavance's irritable Scrooge. In Deborah McAndrew's adaptation (★★★★☆), reworked at Leeds Playhouse after last year's run at Hull Truck, he is also bothere…