A novella by Charles Dickens
This charming Christmas tale, more beloved in its day than A Christmas Carol, has all the wit and humour of
a classic Dickens story bubbling with music, song and fairytale magic, and let’s not forget: a singing Cricket!
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A novella by Charles Dickens
Adapted by Sarah Rodgers and Naomi Wright
Original music and lyrics by Christopher King
Directed by Sarah Rodgers
The Playwright: Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His many volumes include such works as David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend. Dickens gave his first formal expression to his Christmas thoughts in his series of small books, the first of which was the famous A Christmas Carol. There were four others: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man. The five are known today as the Christmas Books. The Cricket on the Hearth, although third in the series, is perhaps next in popularity to A Christmas Carol. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity during his lifetime than had any previous author. Much in his work could appeal to the simple and the sophisticated, to the poor and to the queen, and technological developments as well as the qualities of his work enabled his fame to spread worldwide very quickly. His long career saw fluctuations in the reception and sales of individual novels, but none of them was negligible or disregarded and his popularity has never ceased. The most abundantly comic of English authors, he was much more than a great entertainer. The range, compassion, and intelligence of his apprehension of his society and its shortcomings enriched his novels and made him both one of the great forces in 19th-century literature and an influential spokesman of the conscience of his age.
