Its funny how life throws so many coincidences in my path. I am doing an Open University Course which includes some works from Charles Dickens. At the same time Chichester presents a two part play extracted from the Nicholas Nickelby novel. What the play does is take a text that in my eyes was doom, gloom and darkness and turn it into a riotously funny, hugely entertaining evening at the theatre. As I had to read Great Expectations for my course I wondered if I could find the same amount of humour in this novel. I could not, probably because I am not that clever. What I could find that I could not when first read in my early teens was a list of characters who were so minutely caricatured that they rose from the paper and stood larger than life, twice as grotesque and hugely amusing before my very eyes.
The storyline line begins with an overweight middle aged man with a heavy smoking habit in manacles managing to chomp his way through miles of marshes. We could do with this guy in our Olympic team. The small boy who finds him sees cows that talk and wear dickey bows. The sister of the boy is heavily into sado- masochism and there is a woman who is suffering from post jilted wedding contempt. There is a guy who has a mouth like a letter box (and I thought that was our last first lady). He lives on an island in a fortress with his old daddy. Wait a minute maybe there is some excellent material here for another comedy. I wonder if I should let Chichester know?

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