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The Telling presents: What the Dickens?
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Wednesday 4th December, 2024
7:30 pm
The Green Room @ The Grand, The Leas
Performance
Cast
Clive Hayward as Charles Dickens
Karen Ascoe as Catherine Dickens / Voice
Rosalind Ford as Ellen ‘Nelly’ Ternan / Cello
Alexander Knox as Young Dickens / Violin
Rosa Lennox as Young Catherine / Bob Fagin / Accordion
Clare Norburn as Multiple Small Roles / Voice
Steven Edis Composer/Pianist
Music and theatre collide: Charles Dickens’ life becomes strangely entangled with Scrooge’s as he’s haunted by the women he mistreated, soundtracked by colourful Victorian songs, street music, carols & folk dances performed by a cast who act, sing & play instruments – sometimes all at the same time!
It’s Charles Dickens’ last Christmas Eve: 1869. Against his doctor’s wishes, he gives one of his acclaimed theatrical readings of A Christmas Carol, but from the moment the lights go down, his life becomes strangely entangled with his character Scrooge. Dickens’ carefully managed image as a family man, who has created the very quintessence of Christmas starts to unravel. He is haunted by the women he mistreated (his wife and mother of his ten children, Catherine Dickens, and his secret young mistress, Ellen ‘Nelly’ Ternan), who force him to face up to his past, present and future. Can Dickens learn from the ghosts, repent, and be saved – as Scrooge was saved?
£5 – £20
Tickets: https://www.thetelling.co.uk/events/dickens-folkestone
