Macready! Dickens' Theatrical Friend

Sarah Thorne Theatre

7.30 pm

Macready! Dickens' Theatrical Friend
Written & performed by Mark Stratford
The remarkable true story of the great Victorian actor-manager, Macready - the man to whom his best friend Charles Dickens dedicated Nicholas Nickleby.
“I wish I were anything rather than an actor – except a critic!”
Despite becoming head of his profession, Macready never wanted to be an actor. Instead, he dreamed of being a barrister and a gentleman. But when his father’s theatre company collapsed, the young Macready had to step in to save it, and found himself unwillingly plunged into the ungentlemanly world of the stage…Mark Stratford brings his highly-acclaimed show to the Sarah Thorne Theatre. With passion, humour, emotion, and an array of characters and anecdotes, he will take you on a journey through the sheer graft, tribulations and joys of Macready’s life, and the fascinating world of Victorian theatre.
" Macready! Dickens' Theatrical Friend" . Written and performed by Mark Stratford.