The Pickwick Papers

By Charles Dickens, adapted by Barry Brown.

Samuel Pickwick, an elderly gentleman from the world of Jane Austen, is plunged into the fast-moving world of real life, Victorian style, a challenge that he meets with all the ability of a sitting duck.

Supported by the idiot members of the Pickwick Club and his faithful man-servant, Sam Weller, he soon finds himself hedged about by confidence tricksters, crooked politicians, voracious women and corrupt lawyers, as he blunders from one comic set piece to another, including one of the funniest trial scenes in English literature.

This is a lively new dramatisation of the novel that established Charles Dickens as one of our greatest comic writers.

Age suitability: 8+.