VERSATILE actor Pip Utton returns to two Dorset venues this weekend with his show charting the last 12 years of Charles Dickens’ life.
Pip, who has toured Dorset with one-man shows about Hitler and Charlie Chaplin, looks at the last, happy years of the writer’s life when he was touring America and found love with a much younger woman.
Pip said: “Dickens was a very funny man, great fun and a great lover of jokes.
“When he was 48 he fell in love with an actress of 18. He set her up in a cottage in Peckham and their love was a secret until 1930. Of course, in those days, he could move about with anonymity.”
Pip transforms into Dickens at Marnhull village hall tomorrow (call 01258 820381) and at Melbury Osmond village hall near Sherborne on Saturday (call 01935 83410). Both shows start at 7.30pm.
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