It was a bold move of the Chichester Festival Theatre to revive David Edgar’s famous two-part adaptation of Charles Dickens’ early novel in September 2006, and that production by Jonathan Church and ...

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Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Actor Ian McKellen chooses a Dickens adaptation by David Edgar at the RSC The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, ...

There's no point, of course, in comparing the National Youth Theatre's Nicholas Nickleby with the 1980 production by the RSC when it really was royal and one's appetite for dramatisations of ...

Those who seek a polar opposite to Michael Caine’s kind-but-firm patriarch Dr. Wilbur Larch in The Cider House Rules will find it in Jim Broadbent’s horrid, one-eyed headmaster, Wackford Squeers, in ...

The challenge is daunting: How do you reduce an epic, 800-page novel into a two-hour movie? When the author is Charles Dickens, there’s the added onus of pleasing his passionate following. Famously, ...

City Life 's Steve Timms. Birmingham born playwright David Edgar's adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby was one of the RSC's biggest hits of the '80s. The ...

Until Sat Oct 11, Part I Thu & Sat 2.30pm, Part II Thu-Sat 7pm, Festival Theatre, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, £12.50-£27.50 (£9.50-£24.50), 0131 529 6000 Take a deep breath for a double-helping of ...

Douglas McGrath’s new screen adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Nicholas Nickleby” has the rare distinction of being both too long and much too short. It’s too short to capture even remotely either the ...

The consummate storytelling and richly drawn characters of one of literature's greatest chroniclers of the human condition make Douglas McGrath's adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby" a delightful ...