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Charles Dickens adapted Sikes and Nancy from the grislier material in Oliver Twist. It became the most notorious of his legendary Public Readings; a masterpiece of high Gothic melodrama. Audiences were shocked into silence. Women would scream and faint. ?I shall tear myself to pieces,' Dickens vowed before one performance. He surely did, it is now thought that the strain of ?The Murder' hastened Dickens's early death.

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James Swanton

Creatives/Company

Author: Charles Dickens

Sikes and Nancy

Sikes and Nancy (Play) production archive for QTIX code T01009491613. Details of all Sikes and Nancy archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S771348010

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7 Feb 13
to
9 Feb 13

Mercury Theatre
Colchester, Essex
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