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"they all look at her like me when I was her age of course any old rag looks well on you then a great touchmenot too in her own way at the Only Way in the Theatre royal take your foot away out of that I hate people touching me afraid of her life Id crush her skirt with the pleats a lot of that touching must go on in theatres in the crush in the dark" (U18.1036)
The play 'The Only Way' was a stage adaptation of Dickens' novel 'A Tale of Two Cities' by two clergymen, Rev. Freeman Wills and Rev. Langbridge. It takes place during the French Revolution. There had been previous stage adaptations of A Tale of Two Cities, but according to the NYT (1899), "they are not remembered because the playwrights tried vainly to compress within the brief two hours' stage traffic too many of the incidents of the book." The Only Way worked well because all the important incidents narrated later in the novel are summarized in a "quick preliminary scene", giving then center stage to Sidney Carton, the actual hero of the tale. This PC shows Mr. Acton Bond in the role of Comte Fauchet.
