Dickensian chamber theater in Belfast

Cold Comfort Theater will present a short play, "The Triumph and Tragedy of Smike: a friendship wrought from misery," Friday through Sunday, Aug. 11 through 13, at 6 p.m. in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church, 95 High St. This brief morality tale reflects on the never-ending battle between good and evil as told though the eyes of Charles Dickens and focusing on the relationship between Nicholas Nickleby and the lonely and abused orphan Smike. This one-act adaptation uses much of the text from