Time is running out to get a ticket for the special event celebrating Charles Dickens’s 200th anniversary at the Pump Room, Bath, on Tuesday 7 February.
The Council is staging a 7pm performance, titled ‘Dickens 200’, which will celebrate the author’s association with Bath.
In the special one man show Charles Dickens is brought vividly to life by performer Doc Watson with a double-bill of lively renditions from ‘The Pickwick Papers’, particularly scenes satirising life in Bath, and the ghost story ‘The Signal-man’.
Councillor Cherry Beath (Lib-Dem, Combe Down), Cabinet Member for Sustainable Development, said: “The evening looks set to be quite a treat, what with Dickens’s continued popular appeal and Doc Watson’s hugely-charismatic persona.
“Visitors can also appreciate the magnificent ornamental bust of Charles Dickens – which has recently been conserved by Bath & North East Somerset Council and will have pride of place on the Pump Room stage from 5 February until 12 February.”
The bust of Charles Dickens at the Pump Room was completed in 1900 by Percy Fitzgerald. Earlier in his life Fitzgerald had contributed to Dickens’s publication ‘Household Words’ and in 1914 he wrote his own ‘Memories of Charles Dickens’.
Tickets for the ‘Dickens 200’ performance, at 7pm on Tuesday 7 February, cost £8 (£6 for concessions) and are available from Bath Box Office on 01225 463362.
