London Tide at the National Theatre review: all tension washes away in this leaden Dickens retelling

Characters either narrate or play short scenes delivering event after event. Ceaseless plot works on the page; on stage, audiences crave subtext to glean and hold on to. Worse, where Dickens’ contextualised writing allows coincidence to thrive, in dialogue as bald as this, the coincidences just feel contrived.

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