What the Dickens? At OSO Arts Centre
What the Dickens? At OSO Arts Centre
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Award-winning music and theatre company, The Telling presents What the Dickens? at OSO Arts Centre, Barnes from 26th – 30th November 2024, 7.30pm.
A new show where music and theatre collide by award-winning Richmond-based writer Clare Norburn and BAFTA-nominated director Nicholas Renton with colourful Victorian popular songs & street music, old carols and lively folk music performed by a multi-talented cast of seven who act, sing, dance and play instruments – sometimes all at the same time!
It’s Charles Dickens’ final 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?
More information and tickets HERE
