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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
This play on video runs eight hours and is worth every minute--brilliantly done.
10 October 1998 - 4 out of 4 users found this review helpful.
This video of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 8-hour production of Nicholas Nickleby is well worth the time. It's funny, moving, and very Dickensian. There's also a brief look at Victorian productions of Shakespeare (when Nicholas stars as Romeo) which is absolutely hilarious. The actors all do a wonderful job, particularly those playing Nicholas, Kate, and Ralph Nickleby and Smike. This is one of those rare videotaped plays which captures the best of the real production with none of the drawbacks of most taped plays.
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