Category: Charles Dickens
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…
Review: Dickens Abridged, Arts Theatre
“Fistulas, fistulas, always the fistulas” Previously seen in an earlier incarnation as Dickens Unplugged, Dickens Abridged is…
BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013 finalists
Best Audio Drama (Single play) (Judges: Jane Anderson, Fiona Shaw, Ben Stephenson, Vanessa Thorpe) Betrayal by Harold…
Radio Review: Dickens in London
“It seems that I would be an uncommercial traveler” The bi-centenary of Charles Dickens’ birth has been…
Film Review: Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
“You must bear up against sorrow my dear” Douglas McGrath’s adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby manages the not-unimpressive…
TV Review: Great Expectations
“If you can’t beat a boy at Christmas when can you beat him?” One of the centrepieces…
Review: The Uncommercial Traveller, Punchdrunk and Arcola
“You will need a map, a sense of adventure and the most important ingredient, an incurable curiosity”…
Review: Great Expectations, ETT at Watford Palace
“I want to be a gentleman” English Touring Theatre’s production of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations relocates the…
Review: A Christmas Carol, Theatre Delicatessen
“You will be haunted Ebenezer, three times” In what is the penultimate production that will take place…
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