NICKLEBY BUILDING ON TRIUMPH FOR RETURN

The six-and-a-half hour epic returns to Chichester (Sept 10-22) but this time with the rest of the country in its sights.

A national tour follows and then it will conquer the West End before heading off to Canada in the new year- huge plans for a huge production.

David Edgar's two-part adaptation of Dickens's comic masterpiece was a landmark moment on its RSC premiere in 1980- a status it is now rapidly acquiring in its Chichester incarnation, back now with most of the cast intact and with co-directors Jonathan Church and Philip Franks once again at the helm.

For full feature and more pages of entertainments, see West Sussex Gazette September 5