Monday, April 13, 2009

Charles Dickens to appear at EWU



Friday, April 24, at 7:30 pm, Showalter Hall, free

Giles Davies, formerly of the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival (where, in Oct. '07, Davies appeared in a one-man show adapted from Mary Shelley's *Frankenstein*).
He'll perform:
"The Death of Nancy" from *Oliver Twist* (in which Davies plays four characters; covers up to the unfortunate end of Bill Sykes)
and
"The Uncommercial Traveler" (in which Dickens recounts visiting Boston and New York, circa 1859 -- very funny now, but considered insulting at the time

Call: 359-2459

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