Andersen's English: A Play

✍ Scribed by Barry, Sebastian

• Book ID: 108879646
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 51 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780571319275

✦ Synopsis

Celebrated children's writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad's Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family.

To the lonely and eccentric guest, the members of Dickens' household seem to live a life of unreachable bliss. But with his broken English, Andersen doesn't at first see the storms brewing within the family: undeclared passions, a son about to go to India, and a growing strangeness at the heart of Dickens' marriage.

Andersen's English by Sebastian Barry premiered at the Theatre Royal, Bury, in February 2010 in a production by Out of Joint.