What The Dickens? Occupy Protest Inspires A New 'Christmas Carol' The San Francisco Mime Troupe's resident playwright, Michael Gene Sullivan, has re-imagined the 19th century holiday classic — with its familiar themes of labor unrest, joblessness and starvation — for the troubled 21st century. By Maria L. La Ganga December 17, 2011 Reporting from San Francisco -- Ebenezer Scrooge is a corporate banker, busy foreclosing on the hapless masses. Bob Cratchit and his beleaguered family live in a chilly tent in an anonymous Occupy encampment. The ghost of Christmas future sports a flowing black robe of taped-together trash bags and...