Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 13-15 11 Aug 202317 Aug 2025 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 13 Inspector Bucket asks Clamb if he saw a woman with a black fringed shawl outside Tulkinghorn's office the night of the murder. Clamb says…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 10-12 10 Aug 202317 Aug 2025 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 10 This is the first episode to be directed by Susannah White rather than Justin Chadwick. I feel like I can kind of tell the…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 7-9 9 Aug 202311 Apr 2024 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 7 We learn right away in this adaptation which characters are responsible for Jo's disappearance though we don't exactly know how. Almost the first thing…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 4-6 8 Aug 202311 Apr 2024 by The Adaptation Stationmaster Episode 4 Kenge hands the training of Richard over to Guppy. Burn Gorman does a great job of conveying through his facial expressions that Guppy is…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Bleak House (2005) Episode Recaps 1-3 7 Aug 202311 Apr 2024 by The Adaptation Stationmaster In this series, I'm going to go through each episode of the 2005 miniseries adaptation of Bleak House, more or less, scene by scene. (There may…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… A Toast…to a “Dickens December”! 24 Nov 2022 Wherein the #DickensClub (The Dickens Chronological Reading Club) Proposes a few ideas on group--and other--events going on in the Dickensian Community over the holidays. by John Leech for A Christmas…
Crummles & Co (Dickens on stage and screen)… Marnie’s Nickleby Diary: Background on the RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby 18 Jul 2022 by Marnie Friends, here are some tips for viewing the RSC's adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby which we're discussing in our Group Watch. Here are some quick links to the various…
Dickens Club… “All Those Thieves and Pickpockets Lurking in Dark Alleyways”: Oliver Twist Onscreen 23 May 202223 May 2022 by Boze We’ve talked before on this blog about the visual nature of Oliver Twist. In terms of cinematic images per page it’s rivaled only by A Tale of Two…
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