Theatre Alibi with Exeter Northcott & Oxford Playhouse present Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens’ Old Curiosity Shop revisited, adapted by Daniel Jamieson

Nell Trent lives with her grandfather above The Curiosity Shop, a vintage record store. When the shop is repossessed by Quilp, a malignant loan shark, Nell and Grandpa are forced to hit the road.

Living rough, they meet the usual suspects – conmen, Good Samaritans, wide boys and buskers - in cities and villages across England.

Imaginatively translated to the present day, Dickens' story of love, human frailty and downright wickedness has a fabulous cast of characters, from bent lawyer Sally Brass to wide boy rapper Dick E. Swiveller.

Playfully staged and featuring film projection and a soundtrack that takes in hits from Bach to Bowie, Curiosity Shop shows England to be as much a cultural curiosity shop as it ever was in Dickens' day...

Theatre Alibi's recent productions include Spies, The Ministry of Fear, Goucher's War and The Crowstarver.

Tickets: £12.50-20.50.

Post show talk on 12 & 13 March at 1.30pm; BSL interpreted performance on 15 March; audio-described performance on 16 March at 2.30pm with Touch Tour at 1.30pm; schools’ matinee 13 & 16 March at 2.30pm.

Box office: 01392 493493

http://www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/

http://www.theatrealibi.co.uk/

Fri 8 - Sat 16 March 2013

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7.30pm