"It's not Easy Being a Victorian Kid", invites children in the
audience to live in the Victorian home of Mr. Peter Downly,
wealthy industrialist and factory owner. Life is very different
for any young girl or boy in the late 1800's...family
relationships, discipline, games and entertainment, clothing,
expectations and school. So much to learn and so little time.
It really isn't easy being a child in 1885.

An exhibit of children's toys and clothing/shoes travels with
this program.



" Charles Dickens, Pip, and their London". Victorian Whispers
escorts you and your students through an audience
inter-active 1800's living history time travel to Queen
Victoria's era of propriety, elegance, and social suffering.
Watch Victorian characters come to life as they reveal the
fashions, social issues and themes of Charles Dickens as
portrayed in Great Expectations or A Christmas Carole. Oh, to
be a wealthy industrialist....to understand Victorian
etiquette...the power of Charles Dickens and his characters!
Why not be a part of it all?

Victorian antique and reproduction costumes and accessories
round out this experience to make the characters of Dickens
come to life!