Tamzin Merchant
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Were he alive today, Charles Dickens would be 199 years old which means that next year will be the bicentenary of his birth. The BBC are set to honor Britain’s greatest ever novelist by airing a series of programs related to the writer and his work during 2012. Festivities officially begin at the end of this year when BBC One will air a new adaptation of Great Expectations starring Gillian Anderson and David Suchet. Following that, Dickens fans can turn their attentions to BBC2 and a dramatization of Dickens’ last work The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. The writer died before he completed the story but Gwyneth Hughes has picked up where he left off and turned the unfinished book into a two part psychological thriller.
In the drama, Tudors star Tamzin Merchant takes...
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Were he alive today, Charles Dickens would be 199 years old which means that next year will be the bicentenary of his birth. The BBC are set to honor Britain’s greatest ever novelist by airing a series of programs related to the writer and his work during 2012. Festivities officially begin at the end of this year when BBC One will air a new adaptation of Great Expectations starring Gillian Anderson and David Suchet. Following that, Dickens fans can turn their attentions to BBC2 and a dramatization of Dickens’ last work The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. The writer died before he completed the story but Gwyneth Hughes has picked up where he left off and turned the unfinished book into a two part psychological thriller.
In the drama, Tudors star Tamzin Merchant takes...
- 9/5/2011
- by admin
22 year old Freddie Fox (represented by Tavistock Wood) plays the titular Edwin Drood in The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, a two-part drama for BBC Two by writer Gwyneth Hughes. Freddie, graduated from Guildhall drama school in 2010, and was recently seen in Any Human Heart and The Shadow Line.
An adaptation and completion of Charles Dickens' last novel, Edwin Drood, which was left unfinished at the halfway mark at his death on 9 June 1870, it is psychological thriller about a provincial choirmaster's obsession with Rosa and the lengths he will go to to attain her.
Matthew Rhys stars as John Jasper, the troubled main character whose psyche is split between darkness and light. He has spent his life in the stifling and claustrophobic cathedral town of Cloisterham in a state of frustrated ambition and has become addicted to opium in an attempt to still his ennui and expand his horizons. But...
An adaptation and completion of Charles Dickens' last novel, Edwin Drood, which was left unfinished at the halfway mark at his death on 9 June 1870, it is psychological thriller about a provincial choirmaster's obsession with Rosa and the lengths he will go to to attain her.
Matthew Rhys stars as John Jasper, the troubled main character whose psyche is split between darkness and light. He has spent his life in the stifling and claustrophobic cathedral town of Cloisterham in a state of frustrated ambition and has become addicted to opium in an attempt to still his ennui and expand his horizons. But...
- 9/3/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
The BBC has announced plans to adapt Charles Dickens's unfinished novel The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. The two-part drama, which will air on BBC Four, is part of the organisation's 'Books On The BBC' project. Edwin Drood focuses on the titular character, his uncle John Jasper and a Ceylonese man called Neville. All three are in love with the same woman, Rose, but Drood ends up disappearing. The mystery (more)...
- 1/25/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
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