A Perfect Likeness
Sat 29 Oct
|The Phoenix Theatre & Arts Centre
A rollicking Victorian odd-couple encounter between two titans of English literature!


Time & Location
29 Oct 2022, 19:30
The Phoenix Theatre & Arts Centre, Barbados House, Station Rd, Bordon GU35 0LR, UK
About the event
A rollicking Victorian odd-couple encounter between two titans of English literature! Reclusive writer and photographer Charles Dodgson (also known as Lewis Carroll) invites celebrity author Charles Dickens to his Oxford home to pose for a portrait. Dickens is so intrigued by the whimsical Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that he accepts. What ensues is a baring of two creative souls, the one private and fastidious, the other boisterous and irreverent. As Dodgson struggles to capture a “perfect likeness” of Dickens, Dickens craftily pries into Dodgson’s personal life to get a handle on one of the most curious men he has ever met. The result is a hilarious and revealing conversation between two quirky, fascinating, and completely different men. A Perfect Likeness by Daniel Rover Singer (Reduced Shakespeare Company) receives its UK Premiere by Conn Artists following on from their hit tours of Silas Marner and The Four Men. (Stephen Sheldrake – Theatre South East)…