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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is an eight-hour stage play, presented over two performances, adapted from the Charles Dickens novel of the same name by David Edgar. It was first staged in 1980 at the Aldwych Theatre in London and the production subsequently transferred to Broadway. The staging was recreated as a film by Channel Four Television in 1982. Despite the play's success, its length and the size of the cast required means that it is seldom revived, although in 2006 Edgar prepared a shorter version for a production at the Chichester Festival, which transferred in December 2007 and January 2008 to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End.
The original London Cast, all of whom played multiple roles, included Roger Rees as Nicholas, David Threlfall as Smike, Ben Kingsley as Squeers, Bob Peck as John Browdie and Sir Mulberry Hawke, John Woodvine as Ralph Nickleby, Emily Richard as Kate, Edward Petherbridge as Newman Noggs, Timothy Spall as Young Wackford and Mr. Folair, John McEnery as Mr. Mantolini, and Suzanne Bertish as Fanny Squeers, Peg Sliderscew and Miss Snevelicci, among many others. Ben Kingsley and Timothy Spall had left the company by the time the production moved to Broadway, and were replaced by Alun Armstrong and Ian McNeice respectively.
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