DICKENS DAY FOR GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL 25TH NOVEMBER AT THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR MEDICINE WAS A FUN PACKED FAMILY DAY
There were performances, talks and information to thrill any Charles Dickens or Victorian period fan.
Please see the programme on Chris West's website to see what exciting items were on the programme. A detailed programme is also pasted at the end of this blog entry.
http://www.charlesdickenslondon.net/DICKENS-DAY-PROGRAMME.html
Below are the photos from the day
PROGRAMME
MAIN THEATRE:
10:30 Putney Park SchoolPresenting their own version of 'A Christmas Carol'.
11:00 Our Lady of The Visitation RC School - Greenford
Extracts from Oliver (acting, singing and dancing).
Dominic Gerrard
Extract from 'A Christmas Carol', adapted and performed by Dominic Gerrard, uses music, puppetry and original notes written by Dickens for his own stage performances.
12:00 Trevor-Roberts School(Senior Choir and Chamber Choir)
seasonal carols and carol-anthems:Ding dong merrily on high, Hark the herald,
In the bleak mid-winter, O come all ye faithful, Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Gardner), Walking in a winter wonderland.The Trevor-Roberts Chamber choir will sing:What sweeter music (Rutter). We will also have some pupils performing extracts from Dylan Thomas' 'A Child's Christmas'
1:00 Amrit Hare
'My Dickens Reading Experience'
In 2012, to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, Amrit Hare, aged 10, decided to read the entire 36 volumes of Charles Dickens' Complete Works.Here he talks about his Dickens reading experience.
2:00 Kings College Chorus
A poem by Matthew Thompson, a young outpatient at GOSH, set to music by Christopher Schlechte-Bond. "I'm So Happy To Have You There". Followed by a selection of carols. Choristers are all university students.
Orchard House School, Chiswick
'Who will buy' by Lionel Bart (from Oliver Twist) Little Jack Horner - TraditionalWassail song - Traditional Monologue by Scrooge
Scene from Scrooge's Counting House
3:00 Portland Place School
Oliver Twist Adapted by Neil Bartlett.Scenes from Oliver Twist.
Chiswick School Theatre Company
Hard Times This is an adaptation of the opening pages of Dickens Hard Times, featuring a scene set in Coketown school. It shows Dickens’ satirical attitude to schooling in the 1800s.
4:00 Matthews Family 30-45 min
Talk and songs about Dickens fascination with Arctic exploration, tracking down lost explorers searching
for the North West Passage, and the fate of HM Discovery Ship Resolute.
5:00 Christopher West presenting Charles Dickens London
Dominic Gerrard
Extract from 'A Christmas Carol', adapted and performed by Dominic Gerrard, uses music, puppetry and original notes written by Dickens for his own stage performances.
6:15 Grand Finale and Carols
TALKS THEATRE:
Talks:
10.15: Christopher West
11:00: Professor Leonee Ormond
11.45: Joanna Fryer
12.30: Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
1.15: Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
2.00: Matthews family
2.45: Chantelle Msumbuga
3.30: Clare Smallman
4.15: Clare Smallman
5.00: Christopher West
5.45: Dominic Gerrard and Scrooge
