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Program announcing No Thoroughfare
AS PLAYWRIGHT

As a playwright, Dickens’s success was modest and his plays were unarguably inferior to his novels. Today they are virtually unknown. Of his several attempts, it was perhaps No Thoroughfare, written in collaboration with friend Wilkie Collins, that fared the best. Given the theatricality pervasive in his novels and his feverish love of the theatre, it is sadly ironic that this gifted writer was unable to turn out a memorable play.