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) which is probably the most famous of … 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. [1] Neo-victorian critics have criticised Oliver! for presenting a colourful and sanitised version of Dickens’s novel that recasts the … 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 based on (Cluedo) and the murderer, weapon, … 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 running concurrently with Mad Props Theatre’s production … Read More