David Copperfield: Adapted for the Stage

David Copperfield: Adapted for the Stage

by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield: Adapted for the Stage

David Copperfield: Adapted for the Stage

by Charles Dickens

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Overview

One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording.

All Dickens's marvellous creations are here: Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mrs Peggotty, Murdstone, Steerforth and Betsey Trotwood. Weaving through the colourful maze of the storyline is David's hopeless infatuation with Emily – and eventual salvation in the arms of the long-suffering Agnes.

Alastair Cording's stage adaptation skilfully concentrates on the essentials of the story while maintaining the colour, humour and drama of the book. Most notable is its fluidity, with each scene flowing into the next without the need for cumbersome scene changes – or much scenery at all. Performable by a cast of eight, if necessary, but equally offering good roles to thirty or more.

'One of the cleverest adaptations you are likely to see' - Ipswich Evening Star

'All the drama, pathos and humour of David Copperfield's eventful young life are vividly realised in this enthralling adaptation' - The Stage


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780017402
Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
Publication date: 04/16/2016
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 96
File size: 183 KB

About the Author

About The Author

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.


Born and raised in Glasgow Alastair Cording researched Scottish theatre history for his PhD subsequently lecturing at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. His extensive career as an actor and director led to writing as the result of the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning epic The Golden City. He has written for a number of theatre companies: a series of children’s plays for Masque; Mrs O’s Saturday Nights (Covent Garden Festival); Fatale (Basingstoke Haymarket); and The Walshingham Organ Margaret Catchpole and Margaret Down Under (Eastern Angles). Adapted works include Wilkie Collins’s No Name for Eastern Angles; Wild Harbour and Gay Hunter for BBC Radio; Alasdair Gray’s Lanark and Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Scots Quair trilogy (Sunset Song Cloud Howe and Grey Granite) for TAG.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington
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