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Practically everyone reading this will have heard of the famous Christmas ghosts who frightened a rich miser into repentance. The story is so well known

Victorian street theatre is coming to St Albans city centre this Christmas with OVO presenting a promenade version of Charles Dickens novella The Chimes.

Everybody knows “A Christmas Carol,” the 1843 novella by Charles Dickens that has become an iconic stage and screen holiday special. Far fewer people are familiar with “The Chimes,” the story he published the following year (and the second in an eventual series of five Christmas books). Watching artistic director Nick Sandys as Dickens giving a virtual reading of the book for Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, its not too hard to figure out why. Mind you, Sandys’ performance ...