New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeDeborah McAndrew puts an intelligent new slant on a classic novel as Northern Broadsides add extra oom-pahCharles Dickens's 1854 novel of life in a northern English mill town opens in the schoolroom where Gradgrind instructs the students, as he does his own children, that "facts alone are wanted in life". Deborah McAndrew's intelligent new adaptation for Northern Broadsides, however, begi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM on April 15, 2018