Dickens Scripts

This category has both the original scripts and the reader’s theatre adaptations of these.

Scripts written so far:

• • • A Christmas Carol
    • Oliver Twist
    • David Copperfield
    • Great Expectations
    • A Tale of Two Cities
    • Bleak House
    • Nicholas Nickleby
    • The Old Curiosity Shop
    • Hard Times

These are generally for cast size 15 plus, duration 15 mins plus (longer, around 25 mins for A Tale of Two Cities and one hour for Nicholas Nickleby). These scripts are also available as Readers Theatre with a smaller cast size of 6 plus.

Also available – Charles Dickens’ Christmas Collection of Novellas:

1. 1. 1. The Battle of Life (30 mins)
      2. The Chimes (40 mins)
      3. The Cricket on the Hearth (40 mins)
      4. The Haunted Man and the Ghost (30 mins)