Dickens' Women is a one person show written by Miriam Margolyes and Sonia Fraser and starring Margolyes.
The play includes 23 different characters (male and female) based on or inspired by characters in Charles Dickens' novels.
The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the "elegantly crafted production puts the focus on the storyteller" (Dickens), highlighting his "obsession with youthful beauty and his baffling relationships with his sisters-in-law".The Age noted that it "combines character sketches, short readings, biographical material and mordant commentary". (Wikipedia)