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Tag Archives: Charles Dickens

My mad monodramas: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson /Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night

A pairing of two American music dramas promised plenty of angsty feminist fun for a Friday night at Grimeborn; and I admit, in less accomplished hands, the angst might have overwhelmed the fun. But thanks to a tour de force solo performance from talented soprano Sarah Minns, directed with exceptional care and detail by Ralph…

August 3, 2019 in Fringe, Opera.

Plum pudding, puppets and psychic renewal: A Christmas Carol, Spinning Wheel Theatre

A Christmas Carol, Dickens’ 24-hour tour into the mind of a damaged, embittered and miserly soul who is on the brink of total isolation, but whose spirit is revived by the cosmic intervention of four ghosts one fateful Christmas Eve, has become part of our national Christmas psyche. Transmuted into countless adaptations on film and…

December 20, 2017 in Theatre.

Packing all the Punch: The Old Curiosity Shop, Pat Whymark & Julian Harries

Onto a small stage, a jagged piece of wall with a gothic window to one side, and a raised, curtained platform on the other, walks Charles Dickens. He tells us – in his own voice, lifted virtually verbatim from the opening of The Old Curiosity Shop – of his nightly walks through the London streets,…

November 8, 2017 in New writing, Theatre.

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