Category: Charles Dickens

Posted in August Wilson Caryl Churchill Charles Dickens Headlong Jack Thorne Leeds Playhouse Mike Bartlett News Old Vic Theatre

News: the Old Vic reveals some of its 2022 plans

Matthew Warchus’ programme for the Old Vic’s 2022 includes an interesting couple of choices and the return…

Posted in Bridge Theatre Charles Dickens Christmas Musicals Not-London Theatre West End

Want to see A Christmas Carol this winter? You could be in luck

Want to see A Christmas Carol this festive period? Well it looks like you could well be…

Posted in Charles Dickens Film

Film Review: The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)

Armando Iannucci’s rollicking adaptation of The Personal History of David Copperfield is huge amounts of fun to…

Posted in BBC Audio Drama Awards Charles Dickens Lulu Raczka Radio Plays

BBC Audio Drama Awards 2019 finalists

Best Original Single Drama 19 Weeks by Emily Steel, produced/directed by Helen Perry for BBC Radio 4…

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, Nichola McAuliffe, Theatre Touring UK
Posted in Charles Dickens Not-London Theatre Theatre review Touring UK Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

Review: Great Expectations, Yvonne Arnaud Guildford

“A gentleman should never be discourteous” At the heart of Tilted Wig’s new version of Charles Dickens’…

Posted in Charles Dickens Christmas Theatre West End

Review: A Christmas Carol, Noël Coward Theatre

“Bah humbug” Thing with resolutions is that it is terribly easy to break them. And having resolved…

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Review: A Tale of Two Cities, Royal & Derngate

“Repression is the only lasting philosophy” Although not intentionally, this year I’ve been racing through the list…

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Review: Dickens Abridged, Arts Theatre

“Fistulas, fistulas, always the fistulas” Previously seen in an earlier incarnation as Dickens Unplugged, Dickens Abridged is…

Posted in BBC Audio Drama Awards Charles Dickens David Eldridge Harold Pinter Nick Payne Radio Plays

BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013 finalists

Best Audio Drama (Single play) (Judges: Jane Anderson, Fiona Shaw, Ben Stephenson, Vanessa Thorpe) Betrayal by Harold…