Charles Dickens
Actor Choularton brings to life a ‘misunderstood’ character
ENCINITAS — Award-winning British actor Ron Choularton, who has become a favorite as Ebenezer Scrooge in productions of “A Christmas Carol” at the North Coast Repertory Theatre and New Village Arts Theatre, returns as the crusty curmudgeon in a staged reading of the Charles Dickens classic at the Encinitas Library Community Room Dec. 15.
Remembering the great Charles Dickens on his bicentennial
Two centuries ago — on Feb. 7, 1812 — Charles John Huffam Dickens entered the earthly stage. Born into an impoverished family, his father having served a term in debtor’s prison, Charles, worked as a child slave in a London blacking factory.The rags-to-riches life of Charles Dickens’s was more remarkable than any of his stories. [...]
