I originally adapted Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens's classic comic novel - for the Library Theatre in Luton way back when, as a follow up to a very successful production of A Christmas Carol.It was great fun with lots of music and laughter and the audiences seemed to enjoy it as much as we did doing it.
One of the actors in that production then contacted me about three years ago with a view to doing a tour of the adaptation throughout England and Wales - and he was offering money, so naturally I agreed.
Then earlier this year Jenny Wicks of Jenny Wren Productions based in Cheltenham contacted me with a view to doing an outdoor production touring around Gloucestershire and Wiltshire - and she was offering to pay me - so naturally I agreed.
Greed is becoming a subject of this Blog I suddenly realise.
So good luck to another set of actors,www.doc-watson.com and I hope another set of audiences enjoy it - as much as I enjoyed adapting and directing the original version.
Excerpts from the book have also been used by me on numerous occasions for the series of readings of Dickens which I've been inflicting on people for the past ten years.
But then it is a lovely book full of the most marvelous characters getting into the most frightful scrapes. Highly recommend as a book to dip into - especially in a wet summer like this. Well, Dickens wrote it originally as a series of sketches and didn't know where it was going and how it was going to end - a bit like this blog!
So if you want an introduction to the delights of this book and a lovely way of spending an evening - why not go to Jenny's web site www.jennywrenproductions.co.uk?
See you there
Doc
