"Consider Yourself at Home": Celebrating Charles Dickens - 21st to 23rd February 2014

Film

Nicholas Nickleby (UK)

(127 min; 2002; dvd; English)

Director: Douglas McGrath

Recipient of the Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble, National Board of Review, USA 2002

With Jamie Bell; Jim Broadbent; Tom Courtney; Alan Cummings; Edward Fox; Anne Hathaway

At 15:00 in Conference Room I

Round table discussion on Dickens and His Afterlives

Panelists: Prof. Regenia Gagnier, Professor, University of Exeter; Prof. Baidik Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi; and Prof. Sambudha Sen, University of Delhi

At 17:30 in the Auditorium

"˜Please Sir, May I Have Some More?' - An Evening with Oliver Twist and Other Worthies

Presented by Aching Shaiza, Mino Maneckshaw, Reuben Israel

Accompanied on the piano by Kyoko Ito

Dicken's unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives is relieved by his tongue-in-cheek humour. The presentation includes readings from the novel and dramatized songs from the 1970s musical using illustrations by George Cruikshank, Dickens' contemporary and the original illustrator of most of his books