Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has been with us for as long as we can remember. The story of the unlovely old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and the way he comes good and embraces the spirit of Christmas, lavishing his love and bounty on the Cratchit family and Tiny Tim is something we’re liable to experience in early childhood as the supreme wisdom of values greater than the world’s and it’s a bit astonishing that this new version directed in the first instance by the great Matthew Warchus – the man who can jump from Ralph Fiennes and Sarah Snook doing Ibsen’s...