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Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens

London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?

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Small Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy’s piercingly painful Magdalene Laundries drama

Murphy plays a man who witnesses Ireland’s church’s abusive workhouses for unwed mothers in an absorbing Dickensian story based on recent history

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Best graphic novels that aren’t about superheroes that everyone should read

From the first graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize to heartbreaking stories of mystery and adventure

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The week in TV: True Detective: Night Country; Big Boys; The Artful Dodger; Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We? – review

Jodie Foster leads a darkly atmospheric reboot; Jack Rooke’s university comedy continues to charm. Plus, a raucous return for Dickens’s pickpocket; and are we all doomed?

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The Artful Dodger on Disney+ review: David Thewlis is the trump card in this rampantly fun take on Dickens

The gags are crass, the names are silly and it's all a lot of fun

Evening Standard

The week in audio: The Chimes; Uncanny Christmas Special; The Today Podcast – review

Toby Jones stars in a pitch-perfect Dickens adaptation; it’s all round to Daisy May Cooper’s haunted house; and Esther Rantzen’s frank revelations are an inspiration

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My week of Christmas jobs: ‘There is bad news. Dancer has diarrhoea’

Are festive jobs a cut above the rest? And which is best: Santa, reindeer wrangler, elf, sprout farmer, snowman’s helper or rollercoaster tester?

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From The Three Musketeers to Cher: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Dumas’s trio bring more mustachioed swashbucklery to cinemas, and the pop matriarch goes festive with an album chock-full of Christmas cheer

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How to watch Bad Education: A Christmas Carol online and from anywhere

The school set sitcom goes festive with a Dickens inspired episode. Here's how you can watch Bad Education: A Christmas Carol online from wherever you are.

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Christmas is a time for traditions. If yours is a nativity pizza, who am I to judge?

We may want tradition to be mystical and ancient but in truth it’s exactly what we say it is – be that Baileys, beef rendang or turkey and all the trimmings

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Oliver! review – tunes, glorious tunes and a thrillingly vivid production

James Brining’s exemplary staging solves every problem – the antisemitism, the coercive romance – that Lionel Bart’s joyous, beloved but difficult musical presents

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Dodger review – this hilarious Dickens prequel is an utter treat

Nicola Coughlan! Lennie Rush! Paul Whitehouse! This festive special of the Christopher Eccleston-fronted show is a supremely funny, star-packed delight

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The best Christmas shows to book: from Dickens and Elf to Gwyneth Paltrow on the slopes (yes, really)

Fancy a festive night out at the theatre? Of course you do

Evening Standard

The Artful Dodger review – this zippy Dickensian spin-off is a very good time

Thomas Brodie-Sangster and David Thewlis are great fun in this new take on Oliver Twist, which sees the young pickpocket move to Australia

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Christopher Eccleston defends playing Fagin in Oliver Twist series as non-Jewish actor

‘Doctor Who’ star plays Dickens’s villain in CBBC spin-off show

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Nae Expectations: Andy Arnold on a gallus Dickens, Glasgow’s Tron and ‘catastrophic’ arts cuts

As he stages Gary McNair’s twist on the tale of Pip, the director reflects on 16 years of spotting and developing raw talent while running the Tron

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The week in theatre: Great Expectations; Infamous; That Face – review

Pip becomes Pipli in Tanika Gupta’s colonial Indian take on Dickens; Caroline Quentin and daughter are a dream team in April De Angelis’s Emma Hamilton romp; and Polly Stenham’s 2007 debut hits home in a devastating revival

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Zadie Smith: ‘I get in trouble when I talk about the state of the nation’

After 17 years abroad, Zadie Smith has returned to her literary stomping ground of north London. She talks about fame, therapy and finding inspiration for her new historical novel on her doorstep

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Activists furious Democratic leaders haven't denounced plan to check every ‘Stop Cop City’ signature

Georgia activists are furious that Democratic senators haven’t condemned Atlanta officials’ plan to verify every signature on a petition to force a vote on a proposed police and firefighting training center

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Bret Easton Ellis: ‘I connected with Quentin Tarantino’

The US author on discovering Stephen King, being inspired by Joan Didion, and losing himself in film criticism

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The Fraud by Zadie Smith review – from Victorian London to slavery in Jamaica

Inspired by a celebrated court case, Smith’s dazzling historical novel combines deft writing and strenuous construction in a tale of literary London and the horrors of slavery

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Lisa Jewell: ‘I once read 40 Agatha Christie novels in a year’

The London novelist on reading Dickens at 11 years old, being inspired by Nick Hornby and why she never reads the same book twice

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Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Rural people are so angry they want to blow up the system’

The first author to win the Women’s prize for fiction twice on how Charles Dickens – and rage about the opioid crisis - helped her write ‘the great Appalachian novel’

Evening Standard

Great Expectations at the Garrick Theatre – Eddie Izzard’s charm just about gets this thin piece over the line

This adaptation of the Dickens classic is neither theatre nor comedy

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Paul Murray: ‘I just dumped all my sadness into the book’

The Irish novelist on his wife’s response to his darkly comic new book, the ghosts that haunt his country, his love of Thomas Pynchon and distrust of Dickens

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