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Mix Dickens with Dante, then sprinkle in some offbeat celestial humor à la “Good Omens,” and you’ll get something like “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol.” Written by Tom Mula, this solo play follows the travails of Ebenezer Scrooge’s late business partner as he navigates the afterlife, which involves a surprising amount of paperwork. Now onstage at Lifeline Theatre, this minimalist production blends the snarky, the sweet and the supernatural.

Solo retellings of classics are in vogue across the Anglophone theater world (see Andrew Scott’s “Vanya,” Eddie Izzard’s “Hamlet” and Sarah Snook’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” ), and I’ve grown somewhat skeptical of this genre’s dramatic value. No matter how well done, such adaptations often seem i

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