This is Charles Dickens the social reformer linking cameo child scenes from Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House and David Copperfield. One actor plays the adult Dickens and the main child part in each scene while the other six actors play a selection of roles, both adult and child, and act as narrators. The scenes cover the young Pip meeting Magwitch, Estelle and Miss Havisham; the Kenwigs celebrating their wedding anniversary; the Jellybys whose mother is so carried away with her good work for Africa that her own family is neglected; young David Copperfield sent away to school; the death of the young street-sweeper Jo; Smike, Nicholas Nickleby and the appalling Squeers. Within the space of one act, Nick Warburton conveys the humour, pathos and poetry of Dickens,

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