Classical Theatre Company stay nicely faithful to Dickens' words
Artistic director John Johnston has said he's never found a production that truly satisfied him - because most omit too many of Dickens' words (such as the opening, "Marley was dead, to begin with"), while adding too many inventions of their own and becoming "ensnared in the spectacle of the thing." The production eschews any distracting bells and whistles, though Ryan McGettigan's spare setting, Macy Lyne's rough-h…