Monday, April 16, 2012

Mark Dawidziak is raising the Dickens again


Former Beacon Journal television critic Mark Dawidziak will be resurrecting his in-costume and in-character portrayal of author Charles Dickens at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 24 at the Cuyahoga Falls Library, 2015 Third Street,

Dawidziak, currently the Plain Dealer's television critic, also will be presenting this program at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in meeting room A and B of the Lee Road Branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library, 2345 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights.

This is the 200th anniversary year of Dickens' birth -- Feb. 7, 1812. Dawidziak has been portraying Dickens for more than a decade.

After the free Cuyahoga Falls performance, Dawidziak will take questions about Dickens’ life and career. For more information, call 330-928-2117 or visit cuyahogafallslibrary.org.

Registration is required for the Cleveland Heights performance. Call 216-932-3600 or visit heightslibrary.org.

Dawidziak is artistic director and co-founder with wife Sara Showman of the Largely Literary Theater Company which has done Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain portrayals and plays over the years.




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