![]() This is what the reviewer said What comes across from Margolyes is not only an in-depth study of Dickens the man and how the public persona was not always what the real man was like, but how his life - and in particular his relationships with women - influenced many of his female characters. (And I might add his relationships with women appeared to be decidedly odd.) This is Margolyes' forte; portraying many of these women from extracts of his books interspersed with Dickens' life story. She re-creates 23 characters and each is as individual as the next, her bright, open, expressive face showing as much of what was behind the lines as the lines themselves. And none of the dourness of Dickens' writing but humour, and loads of it, permeated her performance. Today it has been sunny but n a real taste of winter the temp never rose above 11 which means we feel the chill. |
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