The Great Vincent Crummies and his Thespian Galaxy
On the occasion of the Royal Shakespeare Company's revival of their adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby. Michael Oliver goes backstage in the Victorian theatre, both in fact. and as fictionalised by Charles Dickens whose imagination and personality were steeped in the stage from the age of seven, when he first saw the great clown Grimaldi. Speakers include
Emlyn Williams , Trevor Nunn , Peter Baldwin and Philip Collins
Producer JOHN POWELL