Ever popular at Christmastime (and as a GCSE text) is the thoroughly uplifting, so, so familiar story of greedy, grasping, cold-hearted Scrooge and his sudden, spirited overnight transformation into t ...
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Always a festive treat is the bewitching charm of Northern Ballet’s A Christmas Carol. With drama and character firmly at the fore, theatricality fires on all fronts as the stage fills with spec ...
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Joyce Glasser reviews Joker: Folie à Deux (October 4, 2024), Cert 15, 138 mins. Jesters or fools appear in history as travelling performers or live-in entertainers in the households of noblemen or mon ...
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Charles Dickens’s novels were so popular in the 19th century they were pirated and staged before he had even finished writing them. Victorian readers and theatregoers loved the melodrama. In the 20th ...
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