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Great Expectations launches with Pooja Ghai, Esh Alladi, and Tanika Gupta MBE FRSL

Great Expectations launches with Pooja Ghai, Esh Alladi, and Tanika Gupta MBE FRSL

Samina Ali hosted a launch event for the Royal Exchange and Tamasha’s South Asian reimagining of Charles Dickesn’ Great Expectations, with a panel made up of Pooja Ghai, Esh Alladi, and Tanika Gupta MBE FRSL
The Lowry gets it twisted

The Lowry gets it twisted

The stage adaptation of Michael Rosen’s Unexpected Twist, itself a reimagining of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, comes to The Lowry as part of its UK tour
Review: Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol

Review: Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol

Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol, currently having its European premiere at Southbank Centre, is a warm, Appalachian reimagining of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Octagon is visited by three ghosts

Octagon is visited by three ghosts

Octagon gets into the (spooky) Christmas spirit with a brand-new stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Not much of a Twist in a modern Dickens adaptation

Not much of a Twist in a modern Dickens adaptation

A cartoonish Twist is far from updated in this confusing heist film that portrays Bill Sykes as a predatory lesbian

‘From Gradgrind to Graphene’

The 2014 Foundation Day Lecture saw Professor Jeanette Winterson deliver a passionate talk about the radical history of Manchester