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The Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street showcases Victorian-era Christmas decorations, highlighting Charles Dickens's influence on holiday traditions through his love of festivities and his advocacy for charity, inspired by his writings like A Christmas Carol, which helped revive Christmas celebrations in Victorian society.
Robert Eggers is set to write and direct a new film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novella A Christmas Carol for Warner Bros., with producers including Chris Columbus, marking Eggers' upcoming projects alongside his horror film Werwulf and other previous works like The Northman and The Lighthouse.
2023 is a big year for Christmas video games, with a surprising number of festive releases. One standout is a Metroidvania-style sequel to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol called "Ebenezer and the Invisible World," where players control Ebenezer Scrooge on a new adventure with summonable familiars and power-ups. Other notable games include "Lake: Seasons Greetings," a cozy narrative adventure set during Christmastime, the gory stealth-slasher "Christmas Massacre," a 2D side-scrolling platform adventure game "The Grinch: Christmas Adventures," and a holiday event in Square Enix's mobile remake of Final Fantasy 7, featuring a new Tifa costume and a gingerbread Cactuar antagonist.
Barbara Kingsolver has won the Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel Demon Copperhead, a modern reimagining of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield set in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Kingsolver is the first author to win the prize twice. The judges praised the book as "a towering, deeply powerful and significant book" that exposes the opioid crisis and the detrimental treatment of deprived and maligned rural communities in modern America.
Encores! is staging a new production of Lionel Bart's musical "Oliver!" at New York City Center, featuring minimal sets and props to emphasize the darker themes of Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist." The show mixes upbeat musical numbers with themes of poverty and domestic violence, and the production aims to highlight the complexity of characters like Fagin and Bill Sikes. The show stars Raúl Esparza as Fagin, Lilli Cooper as Nancy, and Tam Mutu as Bill Sikes, and runs for two weeks as part of the Encores! series.
Encores! is staging a new production of Lionel Bart's musical "Oliver!" at New York City Center, featuring minimal sets and props to emphasize the darker themes of Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist." The show mixes upbeat musical numbers with themes of poverty and domestic violence, and the production aims to highlight the complexity of characters like Fagin and Bill Sikes. The show stars Raúl Esparza as Fagin, Lilli Cooper as Nancy, and Tam Mutu as Bill Sikes, and runs for two weeks as part of the Encores! series.
Hulu's upcoming six-part TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" by Steven Knight and co-directed by Samira Radsi, starring Fionn Whitehead and Olivia Colman, receives a bleak reimagining similar to Knight's 2019 adaptation of "A Christmas Carol." Despite Colman's performance, the story grinds along sluggishly, and the detours down grimy alleyways tend to work against the project more than for it. The series premieres on March 26 on Hulu.
The FX adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" premiering on Hulu on March 26th is poorly written and tritely directed, with a senseless original score. However, Olivia Colman, Matthew Needham, Matt Berry, Owen McDonnell, and Ashley Thomas deliver interesting performances. The writing feels like a combination of "Sherlock Holmes," "Peaky Blinders," and "Game of Thrones"-style operatic world-building, with every line of dialogue either an insult or a threat. The series fails to honor the source material without resorting to cheap tricks.