Charles Dickens' Great-Great Grandson Gerald Dickens Performs "Sikes & Nancy" and "The Tale of Captain Murderer"at Byers' Choice

Sikes & Nancy and The Tale of Captain Murderer is Victorian theatre at its most dramatic. Throughout the 1860s Charles Dickens gave a series of readings from his novels and his repertoire featured performances that were safe, well-known and were often comic passages from his novels. But when Dickens performed what he called ‘The Murder ’ he judged the success of the evening by the number of ladies who had fainted with horror. Today it has lost none of its horrific power. Charles’ childhood nurse would regale him with the gruesome tale of ‘The Tale of Captain Murderer ’. At the age of only 6 years, little Charles delighted in the awful and bloodthirsty tale, and in 2024 Gerald brings the story to life once more.