Tag: theatre
“Is there no dinner theatre?!”: Little Dickens and a Dickensian Christmas
This post has been contributed by Catherine Quirk (@quirk_catherine), McGill University. Read her previous posts here, here, and here. In December 2019, theatre-goers at Montréal’s Centaur Theatre found themselves exposed to a new kind of Dickensian Christmas. From 19 November to 21 December, “Master Marionette...
Oliver! Captivate Theatre
This post has been contributed by Erin Horáková. Read her previous posts here and here. “Oliver, never before has a boy—“ no, sorry. I have come to review Captivate Theatre’s Edinburgh Fringe production of Oliver! at the Rose Theatre, not to launch into the big...
Dickens for Dinner
This post has been contributed by Erin Horáková. Read her previous post on dogs in David Copperfield, co-written with Molly Katz, here. Shakespeare for Breakfast is a venerable Edinburgh Fringe Festival institution that has been selling out its house for twenty-six seasons and is still...
Dickens and Dog-Drama: the Walworth Dog meets the Uncommercial Traveller
This post has been contributed by Dr Ann Featherstone (University of Manchester). Dickens is well-known for his love of theatre, whether it was Christmas treats at Drury Lane or a bloody melodrama at the Victoria Theatre in the New Cut. But in the guise of...
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