12 to 20 December 2025
In the Studio

Pickwick & Weller
by Barry Purchese

with more than a nod towards Charles Dickens
Music composed by Michael James
Directed by Rod Lewis

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Samuel Pickwick is a warm-hearted and well-meaning man of advancing years, but, despite his age, still something of an innocent. As he sets forth on his adventures into the wider world, he is easy pickings for rogues such as Alfred Jingle and the rascally lawyers Dodson and Fogg. He is in need of a protector, and no-one comes better qualified than the streetwise Sam Weller. Sam, with his singular brand of philosophy, never fails to make us laugh as he comes to the rescue of Pickwick time and again. Mr Pickwick, Sam and Tony Weller, Alfred Jingle, Tupman, Snodgrass, Winkle, Dodson and Fogg, Dr Slammer, Mrs Bardell... these are just a few of the kaleidoscope of comic characters who come together in a Dickensian romp that gives us a perception of the human condition that is both insightful and extremely funny.