Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571242283
Published:
18.02.2010
No of pages:
112
Andersen's English
Sebastian Barry
Celebrated children’s writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad’s Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family.
To the lonely and eccentric guest, the members of Dickens' household seem to live a life of unreachable bliss. But with his broken English, Andersen doesn’t at first see the storms brewing within the family: undeclared passions, a son about to go to India, and a growing strangeness at the heart of Dickens’ marriage.
Andersen’s English by Sebastian Barry premiered at the Theatre Royal, Bury, in February 2010 in a production by Out of Joint.
Tags
Categorised as:
Music, Stage & Screen
Sub-categories:
Playscripts
Genres & Themes:
Victorian;
Eccentrics;
Families
Characters:
Charles Dickens
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