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several others were admitted to the inn and
appeared in the gallery.
The crowd began to press round the
truck, the children in the front row having
their noses level with the flat. Suddenly a
wiry little man ran nimbly up the ladder and
faced us. He had long dark hair, large
lustrous eyes, a jutting aquiline nose. He
greeted the crowd as friends, announcing
that according with the practice over twenty
years, the Dickensian Tabard Players were
presenting that day, as being the Saturday
nearest to the birthdate of Charles Dickens,
extracts from an adaption of one of his
books, after which the company would
procede to nearby Lant Street, famous for
Dickens himself having lived there as a boy
when his father, John Dickens, had been in
the debtors' prison of the Marshalsea, and
famous also as Bob Sawyer's place of resi
dence when he gave his celebrated supper
party to Mr Pickwick and friends. At the
Charles Dickens School, Lant Street, the
company would perform the rest of the play,
which was to be "Great Expectations".
De foto's die hier zijn overgenomen
geven een goed beeld van dit straattheater,
dat in Southwark al op zo'n lange traditie
kan bogen. In een volgende aflevering van
The Dutch Dickensian kunnen we wellicht
een andere serie laten zien. Immers: de in
het Spaarnestad-Foto-Archief aanwezige
foto's zijn een waardevolle bijdrage voor de
bestudering van 'Dickens in Nederland'.
F.Dubrez Fawcett, Dickens the Dramatist: on
stage, screen and radio. London 1952
D-i
RTTT -WKKS - OLIVER TWIST ANi> OTHER DHTECENS "IMHORTALO"
APPEAR IN LONDON - AT THE OKORffi INN .SOUTHWARK.
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Th a Taberd Players took the parts of
chsraotors from soma of the most famous books of
the 136fch. anniversary of tha birth
famed author..
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