The Charles Dickens Bicentennial Celebration celebrates Dickens’s birth, 200 years ago, bringing together a roster of local and international performers and little-seen and –heard Dickensian treasures: Dr. Philip Carli, world-famous silent film pianist and composer, accompanying both rare archival Dickens film shorts and select luminaries of the IU Opera School in a unique reconstruction of Dickens’s opera of 1836, The Village Coquettes, directed by Alison Mero; Cardinal Stage star Ken Farrell, performing the public reading with which Dickens “electrified” his audiences in 1868, “Sikes and Nancy”; show producers David “Limelight” Francis and “Professor” Joss Marsh at the Magic lantern with slides that inspired Dickens’s imagination, and the story that resulted, A Christmas Carol; and much, much more.
Cost: $9 general admission, $7 with student ID
For more information contact:
Joss Marsh & David Francis
(812)323-3020
[email protected]