Gradgrind

Middlesbrough Theatre and Hall Garth Performing Arts present the Icon Theatre production of "Gradgrind" or Charles Dickens’ Hard Times.

With buckets of energy, music, movement and puppetry, Icon Theatre bring Dickens to life in a fast-paced, touching – and at times very funny – new stage adaptation.

Aged 18, the beautiful Louisa is forced to marry a man she detests, while her brother descends into gambling addiction among the dark mills of Coketown. The arrival of handsome James Harthouse unleashes the desires of their isolated lives and launches them into the high-spirited world of Victorian circus.

Fast, furious – and with a very Dickensian sense of grotesque – this exuberant production celebrates the classic novel in Icon Theatre’s distinctive, engaging style.