Viking 1965

"qs J 'e se K& w'. pickwick Audiences, delighted with the rich vein of comedy and pathos in Theatre Arts' Mr. Ptcktuzck, saw Charles Dickens at his lightest, yet most typical. They guffawed as anthropology profes- sor Joe Pierce, playing that jocular and rotund Briton, Mr. Pickwick, wove a comic trail in his adventures with Pick- wickian Club cronies. From his London boarding house to a fancy dress breakfast party, to a suit for breach of promise and the intruding shadow of prison, Pickwick goes his iras- cible w&y, scandalizing the charming 19th century ladies into the vapors. An adap- tation of Dickens' famed Pickusi,ck Pa- pars)the play was a period piece, snatched from Regency Era London by director Asher Wilson, Theatre Arts' actors, set designers, and costumers. ffi