New play-with-songs version of Dickens's 'Our Mutual Friend' is a panoramic Victori-noir "He do the police in different voices." If ever one phrase summed up a work of fiction, and the art of its writer, then surely it is this description, by Charles Dickens in his 1865 novel, Our Mutual Friend, of his character Sloppy's ability to read aloud from a newspaper. Ironically enough the book itself is one of Dickens's le…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:02PM on April 19, 2024