Assembly Festival and Riverside Studios Present A Christmas Carol Starring Simon Callow Directed and Designed By Tom Cairns A Christmas Carol is the most famous book Charles Dickens ever wrote and one of the most daring. As the Ghosts spirit Scrooge from his past to his present to his future, Dickens plunges the reader cinematically from the miser39s dank and creaking house in the City to riotous festivities, from cozy hearths to graveyards. And all the time the author39s voice, tender, savage, magisterial, is present. Taking the author39s own performing version as a starting point, Simon Callow and Tom Cairns have created a work of total story telling phantasmagoric, hilarious, heart breaking, visionary, a celebration of goodness, a plea for justice and a promise of redemption.