BU Bridge Arts Dept.
Some directors are despotic, barking commands from behind the footlights.
But the last thing Caroline Eves wants to do is scare the Dickens out of her performers. Gently guiding and occasionally interrupting the flow of rehearsal, Eves, along with the 40 students assembled in Room 109 of the School for the Arts, is in the midst of creating a stage adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens' vast novel of the French Revolution. The fruit of their collaborative labors is running at the Boston University Theatre through February 22. He wanted the actors to develop the piece organically, so that it grows as students work on it, rather than being set from the first day. A crowd scene from Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, being staged at the Boston University Theatre through February 22.