{"id":2363,"date":"2019-11-17T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=2363"},"modified":"2019-11-17T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T15:15:33","slug":"dickens-children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=2363","title":{"rendered":"Dickens Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The prologue \u201cDickens\u2019 Life\u201d by Dee Thorne was created with the much appreciated help of Sue Worth\u2019s research of Dickens\u2019 life and works, and Alban Obrien\u2019s advice on Dickens\u2019 autobiography.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1858 is a significant year for partings, and readings to the public by Dickens, but dramatic licence has been used for his father, who died several years before, and his mother who would have been suffering from dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will hear the voices of Dickens\u2019 characters in the dialogue of his family; flamboyant Mr and Mrs Macawber in his mother and father, and ironic, bitter Miss Dartle in his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDickens\u2019 Children\u201d by playwright and screenwriter, Nick Warburton, is an ingenious mix of touching, provocative and comic characters from Dickens\u2019 novels with narration via Dickens as himself  and through his dream voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The epilogue, \u201cDickens\u2019 Hopes\u201d, devised by Dee Thorne, depicts Scrooge\u2019s transformation from a self-centred miser to a generous philanthropist, where Dickens gives hope that the plight of children can be alleviated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dickens Children was performed at Dorchester Town Hall 29th & 30th March 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The prologue \u201cDickens\u2019 Life\u201d by Dee Thorne was created with the much appreciated help of Sue Worth\u2019s research of Dickens\u2019 life and works, and Alban Obrien\u2019s advice on Dickens\u2019 autobiography.\u00a0 1858 is a significant year for partings, and readings to the public by Dickens, but dramatic licence has been used for his father, who died … Continue reading Dickens Children<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2356,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2363","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5MaE2-C7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2363\/revisions\/2372"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}