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EMYLN WILLIAMS AS CHARLES DICKENS [Dramatic Revival] AD: Emlyn Williams; P: Sol Hurok; T: Alice Tully Hall (OB); 11/3/70-11/7/70 (5)
British actor-writer Emlyn Williams returned to New
York with his one-man performance in which he made himself up to look like
Charles Dickens during that famous author’s popular public reading tours in the
mid-19th century.
Selections from Dickens’s writings were presented as
if the author were himself presenting them. Williams had been doing this show,
with occasional variations, since 1951. As usual, he received glowing
commendations from the press. In recent years, another British actor-writer,
Simon Callow, has made such performances a significant part of his own career.