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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…

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…

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…

November 8, 2017 in New writing, Theatre.

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