Nickleby and Parentheses
Mar. 26th, 2012 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Los Angeles peeps, yous so lucky, you can go see Nickleby at the ISC studio – well, more properly, Nicholas Nickleby at Mr Squeers' School, which is only the first (tiny) part of the Dickens novel, but performed from Dickens' very own prompt book! ... Well, a copy of it. He used to do reading tours where he would act out bits of his novels with only a lectern and a book (which he rarely referred to) and this rendition of Nicholas Nickleby is the one he did, which hasn't been performed (as far as anyone knows) for 150 years.
I saw it last night and can in all honesty proclaim it excellent – replete with character comedy and pathos and all that good kind of stuff they just don't make like they used to. Well, okay, they do sometimes, but it's always a surprise to see it done well in a new story, and it shouldn't be, y'know?
Tickets for the ONE REMAINING SHOW can be purchased HERE!
What, what's this? Armando Iannucci explaining what makes Dickens so great? I love both of these things! Thanks, BBC!
In other news, the ISC has officially announced their summer festival lineup:
Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival 2012
Say 'Yes' to Quality!
Los Angeles peeps, yous so lucky, you can go see Nickleby at the ISC studio – well, more properly, Nicholas Nickleby at Mr Squeers' School, which is only the first (tiny) part of the Dickens novel, but performed from Dickens' very own prompt book! ... Well, a copy of it. He used to do reading tours where he would act out bits of his novels with only a lectern and a book (which he rarely referred to) and this rendition of Nicholas Nickleby is the one he did, which hasn't been performed (as far as anyone knows) for 150 years.
I saw it last night and can in all honesty proclaim it excellent – replete with character comedy and pathos and all that good kind of stuff they just don't make like they used to. Well, okay, they do sometimes, but it's always a surprise to see it done well in a new story, and it shouldn't be, y'know?
Tickets for the ONE REMAINING SHOW can be purchased HERE!
What, what's this? Armando Iannucci explaining what makes Dickens so great? I love both of these things! Thanks, BBC!
In other news, the ISC has officially announced their summer festival lineup:
Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival 2012
Say 'Yes' to Quality!
