The Sunday Telegraph London, May 22nd, 2005
Dickens loved his characters. Giles Havergal understands this. His adaptation at the West Yorkshire Playhouse of David Copperfield - originally created for the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago - teems with vivid characters charting their way through a plot that bucks along like a skiff on a rolling tide.
Just as the novel is written in the voice of David Copperfield, so Havergal has the mature Copperfield (Rupert Frazer) on stage throughout the performance, narrating the progress of his "undisciplined heart''. As the dialogue and action slip between David's older and younger (Mark Rice-Oxley) s...
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