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Ginger Hibiscus | Look ahead at Dickens with a Difference at the Trafalgar Studios in London by Ginger Hibiscus
Look ahead at Dickens with a Difference at the Trafalgar Studios in London by Ginger Hibiscus
Look ahead at Dickens with a Difference at the Trafalgar Studios in London by Ginger Hibiscus
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01 Oct LOOK AHEAD: Dickens with a Difference at the Trafalgar Studios

Posted at 15:30h in News, West End by Ginger Hibiscus
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‘Dickens with a Difference’ comprises two London premières, Miss Havisham’s Expectations and Sikes & Nancy. Featuring Linda Marlowe and James Swanton, they will be performed on the same evening at Trafalgar Studios, and can be watched either as separate plays or following on from one another.

Award-winning actress Linda Marlowe (The World’s Wife, Berkoff’s Women) stars in Miss Havisham’s Expectations as the iconic jilted bride ‘Norma’ Havisham, forever in her wedding dress alongside the stopped clock and untouched cake. “Prepare to be amazed as she invites us to share her side of the story – a tale of passion, vengeance and more than a little magic.”

The show, which had a successful run at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe, is an original take on one of Dickens’ best loved novels. Wrestling with love, loss and ageing our heroine replays episodes from the novel from her perspective – at times darkly funny as she explodes the stereotype with laudanum-fuelled relish. Drawing on the text of Great Expectations, biographical material from Dickens’ own life and original material by writer-director Di Sherlock, Miss Havisham’s Expectations is a roller-coaster ride through what it means to be a woman both then and now.

It is followed by Sikes & Nancy, a play adapted and performed by James Swanton based on the legendary readings Dickens himself used to give, which in turn were drawn from the grislier material in Oliver Twist. These notorious readings shocked audiences into silence; women would scream and faint, and before one performance, Dickens said, ‘I shall tear myself to pieces.’ In fact, it is now thought that the strain of the readings hastened Dickens’ early death. Swanton, dressed entirely in black, enacts the compellingly and terrible story of Dickens’ most famous murder. His tour-de-force performance of this masterpiece of Gothic melodrama sees him transform seamlessly from the revolting Fagin to the unfortunate Nancy; from the righteous Brownlow to the ferocious and terrifying Sikes. This bravura storytelling is exciting, dark, physical and brutish.

For tickets and information: www.atgtickets.com/trafalgarstudios

Dates: 9th December – 3rd January 2015

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