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Olivia Mace’s musical adaptation of BLEAK HOUSE 1st Feb – 7 March 2020

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A MUSICAL ADAPTAT I O N O F C H A R L E S D I C K E N S ’ C LA S S I C

WRIT T E N B Y O L I V I A MAC E

BLACKWELL’ S BOOKSHOP, OXFORD

1 F E B R U A RY – 7 M A R C H

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Watch Dickens’ classic tale of inheritance, mystery and
obsession, surrounded by three miles of bookshelves
in Blackwell’s subterranean Norrington Room.

Esther does not know who she is by birth, but when her Godmother dies and she is sent to Bleak House,
that’s when her life really begins…

This new musical adaptation, features live music, song and five actors playing multiple roles in the interweaving worlds of foggy London, the haunted Dedlock Manor in Lincolnshire and Bleak House.

“The old man, looking up at the bird cages after another look at us, went through the list. Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.”

A Musical Adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic, written by Olivia Mace, directed by Deborah Newbold and musical direction by Joseph Atkins, designed by Ryan Dawson Laight.

Published: 9th January 2020