The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play) reception was enthusiastic, critical reception was mixed. Frank Rich in "New York Times" reported dull passages piling up as "dead weight", while John Simon in the "New York Magazine" felt that the work was a "middlebrow enterprise" doing "scant justice" to the novel. In contrast Mel Gussow, again in "The New York Times", noted that ""Nicholas Nickleby" remains true to Dickens – many of the lines are taken directly from the novel, dialogue as well as narration – and to first principles of theater" when describing the RSC's recast production in 1986. Playwright and reviewer Thomas Hischak, writing in retrospect
Jonathan Harden by Troubles, on the subject of male mental health. He has been married to writer/actress Bronágh Taggart since 2008. Jonathan Harden Jonathan Harden is a Northern Irish actor, director and mental health advocate. Born in Belfast in 1979 to an American mother and an Irish father, he is best known as series regular Sean Rawlins in ITV crime drama "Unforgotten", Gregory in the final series of "Peep Show", Walter Hill in "", as Newman Noggs in "Nick Nickleby" - a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens novel, "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" (which he also narrated) – and for