The Mystery of Charles Dickens, Playhouse, London
Playhouse, London: Charles Dickens had a lifelong passion for performance and the theatre. At an early age his father encouraged him to recite poetry in a local pub and he retained the ability to captivate audiences in his later years when he embarked on a series of punishing international reading tours. It is the energy and passion of these performances that Simon Callow emulates in this revival of a one-man show ab…