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Sketching
Wilton’s Music Hall, London
SKETCHING, an ambitious take on Sketches by Boz, employs James Graham in collaboration with eight emerging writers to create a collage of London today in Dickensian style.
Four of the interwoven tales provide a fantastical plot, while the others add colour with a range of largely forgotten citizens moving on with their lives.
The episodic nature of the performance, mainly populated with caricatures, is enhanced by Elliot Griggs’s cartoon-style projections of the capital’s buildings and the atmospheric surroundings of Wilton’s Music Hall.
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