This hair-raising drama unfolds at a lightening pace and beautifully dramatizes the reasons the poor of France revolted.
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As the full company gathers to speak Dickens' immortal lines 'It was the best of times-it was the worst of times. In this short play, the main story of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities becomes the peripheral story to that of Madame Defarge and her single-minded revenge. Her secret drives her to seek a revenge so strong that it ties her to the French revolution.
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