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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Abridged Version)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  12w, 12m

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Abridged Version)

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    12w, 12m

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Summary
THE STORY: This is an abridged version of David Edgar's Tony Award®-winning two-part adaptation of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY that reduces the cast requirements and the running time by more than two hours, so that the entire show may be performed in a single evening. As with David Edgar's original adaptation, the sum total is a brilliant recapturing of the sights and sounds of Victorian England, and the touching, funny, exhilarating saga of the virtuous young Nicholas as he meets and masters the challenges of poverty and corruption. In the end the play is a soaring affirmation of man's essential goodness—a thrilling, eloquent rendering of the diverse people, places and events which, in Dickens' time or in ours, make up the real stuff of life and draw on the deepest resources of the human spirit.

Click here for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby: Part I
Click here for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby: Part II

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“The greatness of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY is breathtakingly simple. The play flies. And it flies backwards. It takes you to a world of sentiment and passion glimpsed before but never known.” —New York Post.

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Authors

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens, one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century, was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. His father was a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, and in 1824, he was arrested for debt. While his family w ...
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David Edgar

David Edgar was born in Birmingham on 26 February 1948. He was educated at Oundle School and read Drama at Manchester University. After a short career in journalism, he took up writing full-time in 1972. His plays include The National Interest (1971), Excuses Excuses (1972), ...
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