Gerald Charles Dickens (actor) his own British and American tours, Gerald Dickens performs extracts from "The Pickwick Papers", "David Copperfield", "Oliver Twist", "Great Expectations", "Nicholas Nickleby" and "A Christmas Carol" among others, in the latter creating 26 characters in a performance described by "The New York Times" as "a once in a lifetime brush with literary history." Dickens has recorded unabridged audiobooks of "The Pickwick Papers" and "Nicholas Nickleby". In December 2011 he appeared on the BBC's "Songs of Praise". A keen golfer, he wrote and performs the two-act play "Top Hole!", based on four golfing stories by P. G. Wodehouse. In 2015 at
Dickens World Blacking. Unlike many other theme parks, Dickens World was not designed to guide visitors through any particular path, but enables them to structure their own experience. When Dickens World first opened it included a Great Expectations-themed water ride; a Haunted House; a 4D movie at Peggotty's boathouse; an animatronic show in a mock-up Britannia Theatre; an interactive schoolhouse based on Dotheboys Schoolhouse; a "Fagin's den" play area for children; "The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters", a themed bar and restaurant. The park exited into a gift shop called The Olde Curiosity Shoppe. The Great Expectations ride took visitors through scenes of