20 Apr 2017

Dickens gets a musical makeover

From Upbeat, 1:20 pm on 20 April 2017

The New Zealand International Comedy Festival is just weeks away, and is packed full of local and international talent. It will be the best of times (and hopefully not the worst of times) for Penny Ashton who is bringing Charles Dickens to life through musical comedy Olive Copperbottom, in which she plays 15 different characters in pox-ridden London.

Penny Ashton

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