Dickens Asks for More

Dickens Asks for More

Written and performed by Michael McEvoy
Directed by Jennifer McEvoy

Dickens Asks for More presents a delightful array of the most vivid, surprising and entertaining of Dickens´ unforgettable creations. In viewing this gallery of “sketches” we find they hang together as witnesses to some of the most important social changes that took place in Victorian England.

Dickens Asks for More was first seen at the International Performing Arts Festival in Lahore in 2008:

“The audience was enthralled by McEvoy’s ability to capture the essence of the world famous works of Dickens. Moving through the various characters with an ease born of years of practice, he managed to maintain an acute balance between comic relief and pathos. Changing voices and tone, he made the viewers realize that the theatre was truly a powerful thing, even if a solitary performer occupied the stage. At the conclusion of the performance, the audience gave way to thundering applause.” Ali Usman, Lahore Daily Times.

“The biggest success of the show was in the mental images it managed to conjure up: the conversation between Pip and the escaped prisoner is as if both are there on the stage at the same time… a wonderful impersonation of Scrooge…” Sabizak Theatre Blog.

Tuesday 31st May – Saturday 4th June 2011. 20.30 – 21.30
A Studio Rubin, Makostranske namesti 9, Mala Strana, Praha 1.

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