Well, there's a first for everything. In two decades of reviewing this was the first time I've seen a show end early. What should have been a sparkling opening night for Nick Mohammed's distinctly idiosyncratic take on a Dickens classic came to an abrupt conclusion when a software issue could not be resolved.
This was a shame because after a delayed start things were going so well. Before Mohammed became a football sitcom star as Nate in Ted Lasso he was known best for his alter ego Mr Swallow, the socially awkward squeaky-voiced wannabe who fronts this Yuletide tale. To borrow a Lasso-worthy saying, this was a game of two halves without the second half.
