Sikes and Nancy: Dickens and audience

Author: Caroline Radcliffe

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham. I have published widely on Victorian drama and also on Popualar Performance. I am also an active performer and creative practitioner. Please see my websites below for more information on publications and projects. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/drama/radcliffe-caroline.aspx https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/drama/research/projects/the-machinery/index.aspx

In this post, Dr Caroline Radcliffe (University of Birmingham), discusses the dramatic quality of Dickens’s writing. She reflects on Dickens’s own dramatised reading, Sikes and Nancy, adapted from Oliver Twist, of which she directed a performance at the BMI in 2017 as part of the CLiC Dickens Day. This is a post of the BMI … Continue reading “Sikes and Nancy: Dickens and audience”

3 June 2020 by Caroline Radcliffe