Dickens With A Difference At Trafalgar Studios — londonist.com

Dickens at Christmas: how drearily predictable, you might think. But not in this instance. Trafalgar Studios has chosen to shun the well-flogged redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge this holiday season, in favour of two contrasting and marginally complementary productions that draw on the writer’s more tragic and troubling narratives. Dickens With A Difference is a double bill comprising Miss Havisham’s Expectations, by Di Sherlock, and James Swanton’s adaptation of Dickens’s own Sikes & Nancy. Both are solo performer pieces, and both take us on sinister and distinctly un-Christmassy journeys into Dickens’s darkest corners.

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