Hard Times: The Musical (Original London Cast Recording) [EP]

Book, music and lyrics by Christopher Tookey and Hugh Thomas. From the novel by Charles Dickens

Theatre Royal, Haymarket - Opened 6 June, 2000. Closed 4 August, 2000

Dickens' critique of the brutal realities of Victorian industrial capitalism is presented as a circus, based on the appearance in the novel of Samuel Sleary's travelling circus, the performers in which act out the story of Hard Times.