The Only Way

The last silent Dickens was an adaptation of a play based upon A Tale of Two Cities. The great actor-manager John Martin Harvey first took the role of Sydney Carton in 1899, but found no difficulty in reprising his performance for the screen when he was a still-sprightly 62-year-old! Massive liberties were taken with the book to introduce the character of Mimi, Carton's French maid, originally to provide a role for his wife. With live piano accompaniment by John Sweeney on Sat 11 Feb and by Stephen Horne on Mon 27 Feb.