A new musical stagework reimagining a unique and significant moment in literary and personal history - the meeting between popular 19th-century authors Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Dickens.

Set in Dickens' home at Gadshill Place, Kent in the summer of 1857, Tinderbox is an exploration of friendship, creativity, domestic tension and feeling, wrapped in the magic of storytelling and music.

Charles Dickens - Oskar McCarthy
Hans Christian Andersen - Laurence Panter
Catherine Dickens - Sarah Borges
Kate Dickens - Kariina Gretere

Composer - Stephen Guy Daltry
Librettist - Maureen Thomas