Adapting Dickens: Pickwick to Drood on Broadway If you’ve been following ‘Settling Up the Score’, you’ll know that – perhaps, unsurprisingly – the first of our ‘Adapting Dickens’ blogs looked at Oliver! (1968)... Read More

Perhaps the most (in)famous Dickens musical adaptation is the 1968 musical film version of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! directed by Carol Reed. Neo-victorian critics have criticised Oliver! for presenting a colourful and sanitised... Read More

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is by no means the only musical with multiple endings; Eurobeat – Almost Eurovision has ten potential contest winners and Clue functions much like the board game it’s... Read More

Hello and welcome to The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Settling Up the Score! The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Settling Up the Score is a New Initiatives Project funded by the University of Glasgow... Read More