Mike Poulton has written many successful translations and adaptations, including Ibsen s Rosmersholm, Schiller s Don Carlos, Luise Miller and Wallenstein, and Chaucer s The Canterbury Tales, Malory s Morte D Arthur, and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies for the RSC. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.
'Gripping... has a cinematic quality... there isn't a dull moment' * Telegraph * 'Mike Poulton's adaptation is brilliant... ensures no-one unacquainted with the novel will be baffled' * Observer * 'Best of times, worst of times: Mike Poulton takes them both at a gallop in an adaptation that... builds up the terminal velocity of a political thriller' * Guardian * 'An atmospheric, appealing adaptation of a novel that remains relevant to our times' * The Stage *