Sketching [Paperback]

Charles Dickens' London is reimagined for the 21st century.

Twenty-four hours in the life of a city that has 371 people in every square kilometer, where every street and square shelters heroes and villains, emotional turmoil, violent allegiances, adventures, the remarkable and the everyday.

Olivier Award-winning playwright James Graham forges a uniquely crowd-sourced play, incorporating scenes by emerging writers into his own sweeping narrative. Dickens' panoply of London and Londoners, his big characters and fantastic stories inSketches by Bozare updated for the modern age, incorporating the broadest range of voices from across the community in a theatrical whirligig of wonder and imagination.

James Graham's plays include:This House(National Theatre and West End- Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award nominated for Best Play),Ink(Almeida Theatre),Monster Raving Loony(Theatre Royal Plymouth and Soho Theatre),The Votebroadcast live onto television on the night of the general election 2015 (Donmar Warehouse),Privacy(Donmar Warehouse and Public Theater New York),The Angry Brigade(Theatre Royal Plymouth and Bush Theatre) and the book for theFinding Neverlandmusical on Broadway. As Writer in Residence at the Finborough Theatre his plays includeEden's Empire winner of the Catherine Johnson Best Play Award The Man, andSons of York.Writing for TV includes:Coalition(Channel 4),Prisoner's Wives(BBC1) andCaught In a Trap(ITV1). Writing for film includes:X Plus Y.He is currently working onGypsy Boyfor BBC Films, and a film adaptation of1984.