Unpublished sketches featuring Charles Dickens have gone on public display for the first time at the Charles Dickens Museum in London. Frankie Kubicki, the museum’s Director, says the drawings reveal Dickens’s love of theatre, with scenes from amateur plays staged at his home and appearances by his daughter Mamie and close friends. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00So the first image I want to show you is this one of Dickens throwing his hands up in shock at his daughter Mamie who's playing a character called Clara.
00:11In this image you can see Dickens as one of the main protagonists, Richard Wardour, with Mark Lemon, his dear friend, the editor of Punch.
00:19This image I really love because you get a sense of different aspects of the play.
00:24It's not Dickens, it's the artist Augustus Egg but you can see really some of the staging and some of the elements that they put in in Tavistock House which of course wasn't a professional theatre but Dickens' home.
00:37And again this image with Lemon and Augustus Egg at the bottom you can really see again that staging, the fact that even though this was really done for a bit of fun they put a lot of energy in it.
00:50We know that the smallest theatre in the world as it was known where this was put on had mechanical staging and all sorts of things that Dickens put in the theatre to really make it come alive.
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