Dawidziak busy as the Dickens for the holidays

    

     If it’s the holiday season then Plain Dealer TV critic and former Beacon Journal TV critic Mark Dawidziak is performing  Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” with Mark dressed as Dickens.

    Mark’s schedule ("A Christmas Carol" at Zoar, "A Visit With Charles Dickens" at the other venues):

   1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, United Church of Christ, 142 E. Fifth Street, in Zoar.

   7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, Wayne County Library, Wooster
   2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, Rodman Public Library, Alliance
   7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, Canton, MICHIGAN Public Library near Ann Arbor

   1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, College Club of Akron, Akron Woman's City Club, Akron

    This year marks the 200^th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth.

Mark has been playing Dickens for more than 10 years and is a member of the Cleveland chapter of the International Dickens Fellowship.

The Largely Literary Theater Company was founded by Mark and wife Sara Showman in 2001. They live in Cuyahoga Falls with daughter Becky.

Mark and friends also do Mark Twain – Dawidziak is a dead ringer for Samuel Langhorne Clemens with less and less makeup needed as our Mark’s hair turns as white as Hannibal, MO’s Mark – and Edgar Allan Poe thrillers. 

Dawidziak first portrayed Twain in one-man shows during the early 1980s in Tennessee and Virginia before he began working for the BJ and long before he joined the parade of Beacon reporters and editors who left Akron for Cleveland.