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When we were in London in September, we had the opportunity to see two plays. First was a stage adaptation of the movie Chariots of Fire (complete with running track), timed for the Summer Olympics. The second was a one-man production, The Mystery of Charles Dickens, written by the writer (and Dickens biographer) Peter Ackroyd and starring the actor Simon Callow.
Ackroyd published his biography of Dickens in 1990, and by size alone it’s the be-all and end-all – weighing a hefty 3.6 pounds and more than a thousand pages in length. I read it a few years after it was published, largely because I was a speechwriter for a CEO, I had to read what he read, and he was reading Dickens. The collected works. Unabridged.
When we were in London, Dickens was in the air. This year is the 200th anniversary of his birth. The Bodleian Library in Oxford had an exhibit called “Dickens and His World,” and we got to see that as well. Inexplicably, the Dickens Museum on Doughty Street in London was closed this year for renovation (someone might have managed the timing better).
I’ve been a reader of Dickens since high school. I read three of his novels as part of required course work – Great Expectations in ninth grade, A Tale of Two Cities in tent
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Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
An entertaining biography of Dickens by one of our finest actors
Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language.
From his early years as a child entertainer in Portsmouth to his reluctant retirement from ‘these garish lights’ just before his death, Dickens was obsessed with the stage. Not only was he a dazzling mimic who wrote, acted in and stage-managed plays, all with fanatical perfectionism; as a writer he was a compulsive performer, whose very imagination was theatrical, both in terms of plot devices and construction of character.
Like many actors, Dickens felt the need to be completed by contact with his audience. He was the original ‘celebrity’ author, who attracted thousands of adoring fans to his readings in Britain and across the Atlantic, in which he gave voice to his unforgettable cast of characters.
In Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World, Callow brings his own unique insight to a life driven by performance and showmanship. He reveals an exuberant and irrepressible talent, whose ‘inimitable’ wit and personality crackle off th