Nicholas Nickleby
Presented by GSA Third Year Acting students
- When?
- Wednesday 14 November 2012 to Saturday 17 November 2012, 19:30 (Wed-Sat), 14:30 (Sat only)
- Where?
- Ivy Arts Centre
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Admission price:
- £10, £9 concessions
- Tickets:
- Tickets are available from the University Box Office: T: 01483 686876, E: boxoffice@surrey.ac.uk
Dickens, the great social reformer, here enjoys a spirited outing in this fast-paced 1950s set adaptation accompanied by live ‘Skiffle’ music.
Holloway’s brilliant production makes such sense. Dickens’s angry novels marked the beginning of the great British rejection of the laissez-faire cruelty and cash-driven indecency of the early industrial revolution, and then the post-war period marked the ultimate triumph of that rejection, the moment when people finally rose up and rejected the old sadomasochistic culture of Ralph Nickleby and Wackford Squeers.
First produced in 2001, GSA’s production takes place on the eve of publication by Samuel French.
Director Jonathan Holloway
Designer Neil Irish
Lighting designer Ian Saunders
Adapted by Jonathan Holloway from the novel by Charles Dickens
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH LTD
“…a brilliant tribute to a great novelist who was also a mighty campaigner.”
* * * * The Scotsman