5 Characters in 7 Hours: Nicholas Nickleby Actor Jeff Meanza

Jeff Meanza plays multiple characters in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, being presented by PlayMakers Repertory Company at the Paul Green Theatre from Nov. 11 to Dec. 20.

The play, adapted from Charles Dickens third novel, uses 25 actors who play more than 150 roles to portray the journey of the Nickleby family. Their story takes nearly seven hours of theater to tell and is presented in two performances in rotating repertory.

Managing quick character and costume changes between sizeable blocks of dialogue all the while staying focused on the story in the course of a seven-hour production, is demanding, Meanza explains in this video.

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