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Dickensblog: Sam Mendes's next Audible drama: 'David Copperfield'
(And can we all just thank him for doing something besides Great Expectations?)* The acclaimed director's next Dickens dramatization for Audible** comes out November 30. It will star Ncuti Gatwa of "Doctor Who" as David, along with Helena Bonham Carter...
Dickensblog: 'Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth': A review
Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A curious and enduring relationship by Christine Skelton (Manchester University Press, 2023) Of all the unanswered questions and ongoing disputes about Charles Dickens's life, one of the most intriguing is this: When Charles and his...
Dickensblog: Zadie Smith on the inescapability of Dickens
In the current issue of The New Yorker, award-winning British novelist Zadie Smith explains why there was no keeping Dickens out of her upcoming historical novel, The Fraud: "About halfway through my research, his name started leaping up out of...
Dickensblog: More 'Expectations' in the works
The never-ending flow of Great Expectations retellings and spinoffs continues! This time it's Expectations, a contemporary sequel of sorts that morphs into a murder mystery. Chris Robert Riegel directs, and Callan McAuliffe and Blu Hunt star. Deadline Hollywood has more.
Dickensblog: 'A Christmas Carol' earns three Tony nominations
This was the Jefferson Mays one-man Christmas Carol that ran on Broadway from November 2022 to January 2023. Congratulations to Dane Laffrey and Lucy Mackinnon, nominated for Best Scenic Design of a Play; Joshua D. Reid, nominated for Best Sound...
Dickensblog: Rehearsal footage from Encores' 'Oliver!'
Playbill's YouTube channel has shared rehearsal clips of "Where Is Love?" and "Consider Yourself" from the upcoming New York City Center production, embedded below. And BroadwayWorld has photos from the rehearsal. The cast, led by Benjamin Pajak as Oliver and...
Dickensblog: Thoughts on Hulu's 'Great Expectations,' episodes 3 and 4
A particular speech of Mr. Jaggers's from episode 3 neatly sums up this whole enterprise, and Steven Knight's whole approach to Dickens. When Pip asks why Jaggers has been made his guardian, Jaggers answers, "Because I am known to be...
Dickensblog: Thoughts on Hulu's 'Great Expectations,' episodes 1 and 2
Watching Steven Knight's Great Expectations, after having watched his A Christmas Carol a few years ago, has driven me relentlessly to one conclusion: Knight just doesn't like Dickens. At all. If Knight had been born hating Dickens and hated him...
Dickensblog: Hulu's 'Great Expectations': Reviews and articles
The first episode of the new BBC/FX Great Expectations is now available on Hulu. The Independent opines that, paradoxically, "the desire to sex up Victoriana" is "all very predictable." The Hollywood Reporter states, "What could have been a daring spin...
Dickensblog: 'Shadow Chasers' to feature Dickens and his characters
In the adventure film Shadow Chasers, to be shot in Australia this fall, a young Charles Dickens will join forces with Oliver Twist, Scrooge, and Marley "to save Old London from imminent destruction." George Mahaffey (Chief of Station) wrote the...
Dickensblog: 'Dickens and Prince': A review
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby (Riverhead Books, 2022). What do a 19th-century Victorian novelist and a 20th-century rock star have in common? More than you might expect, according to award-winning author Nick Hornby, who's...