Actor David Houston will perform a 70-minute dramatic reading for adults “Three Dickens Stories for Snowy Days” at 2:00pm on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at the Garden City Public Library located at 60 Seventh St., in Garden City. Enjoy a recreation of the Charles Dickens American Tour of 1867 with period music, costume and small setting.
Charles Dickens, one of the greatest writers in the history of the English language, was also a performer on the London stage and in his day was the most famous theatrical interpreter of his own stories and characters. Enjoy three dramatic readings from original Dickens adaptations: “Boots at the Holly Tree Inn,” a delightful tale of two 7-year-olds who run away to be married and are aided by a gardener along the way. “Sikes and Nancy,” the chilling,unforgettable and exquisitely written murder scene from Oliver Twist. “Doctor Marigold,” an unforgettable, funny and very touching novelette about an itinerant salesman and his deaf and dumb adopted daughter.
This public program is funded by Friends of the Library. Garden City adult residents will be given priority by presenting your GCPL card at the program room door. Non-residents will be accommodated on a space available basis 10 minutes before showtime. No saved seats. Please, no busses. For directions phone (516) 742–8405.
David Houston has appeared in leading roles in scores of plays and musicals, including Major Bouvier in Grey Gardens, Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet, Ben in Death of a Salesman, Herr Shultz in Cabaret and Horace in The Little Foxes. He is a published and produced writer of fiction and non-fiction. His Joan Crawford biography Jazz Baby (St. Martin’s Press) was optioned for movie production. His original plays—including A Rodgers and Hart Audition, The Ghost of Dorothy Parker, and Murder and Madness and Poe—have been seen at a number of Long Island libraries and schools.
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