Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens, adapted by Jo Clifford
directed by Gerald Baker

To celebrate Dickens' anniversary, we're offering Jo Clifford's remarkably focused and moving version of one of his finest novels, Great Expectations.

A hero and heroine who age from nine to middle age: a flight down river: a convict pursued across the marshes: a decaying wedding cake: an abandoned bride goes up in flames: a blacksmith’s forge: a grand subscription ball: rags to riches and back again: a story of abuse and of love twisted and stifled: Dickens’s most accessible and perhaps most devastating novel, adapted for the stage by Jo Clifford, realised at the M.W.T. by a team of very brave, very imaginative and very, very committed actors.

 

Saturday 24 to Saturday 31 March 2012
Sunday 25th performance at 4pm
Saturday 31st Matinee at 3pm
No performance Wednesday 28th

Postal bookings from 11th February.

Please enquire of the Box Office before booking tickets as to the extent of the provision available at the Mary Wallace Theatre for those with disabilities.

Other past productions

1. Larkin with Women - Ben Brown
2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
3. Joking Apart - Alan Ayckbourn
4. The 39 Steps - John Buchan (Adapted by Patrick Barlow from an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon)
5. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
6. Romeo and Juliet - A Senior Youth Theatre Production - William Shakespeare
7. Bette and Joan - Anton Burge
8. The Railway Children (stage version) - E. Nesbit adapted by Mike Kenny
9. Richard II - William Shakespeare
10. Kindertransport - Diane Samuels
11. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
12. The Death of Miss Gloria Starr - Devised by the cast
13. Metamorphosis - Steven Berkoff, from the classic story by Franz Kafka
14. The Seagull - Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Torben Betts
15. The History of Cardenio - William Shakespeare, John Fletcher and Gary Taylor
16. The Snow Dragons - Lizzie Nunnery
17. The Weir - Conor McPherson
18. Oh! What a Lovely War - Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop
19. The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
20. Tom and Viv - Michael Hastings
21. As You Like It - William Shakespeare
22. Toad of Toad Hall - A. A. Milne - A play from Kenneth Grahame’s book ‘The Wind in the Willows’ Music by H Fraser-Simson
23. Collaborators - John Hodge
24. Boeing-Boeing - Marc Camoletti translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans
25. We Are Three Sisters - Blake Morrison
26. THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO - Lee Hall from Carlo Collodi’s original tale
27. The White Devil - John Webster
28. The Adventures of Dick Whittington and his Cat - Dickon Williamson
29. King Lear - William Shakespeare
30. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
31. Coraline - from the novel by Neil Gaiman
32. Night Must Fall - Emlyn Williams
33. All’s Well that Ends Well - William Shakespeare
34. The Government Inspector - Nikolai Gogol, adapted by D. J. Campbell
35. Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov, in a version by Christopher Hampton
36. Egad! The Woman in White - Tim Kelly
37. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs
38. Master Shakeshafte - Peter Parkinson
39. Love’s Labour’s Lost - William Shakespeare
40. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie, Tim Supple and David Tushingham
41. From These Green Heights - Dermot Bolger
42. Othello - William Shakespeare
43. Blood Wedding (Youth Theatre) - Federico García Lorca - Translation by Gwynne Edwards
44. The Chalk Garden - Enid Bagnold
45. A Tender Thing - Ben Power
46. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
47. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
48. Educating Rita - Willy Russell
49. The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
50. Robin Hood - David Barrett
51. Double Bill: Leonardo’s Last Supper and Laughter (Part II) - Peter Barnes
52. Designs on Ladies - Georges Feydeau, translated by David King, adapted by Rodney Figaro
53. Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco, translated by Martin Crimp
54. Once in a Lifetime - Moss Hart & George S Kaufman
55. The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Rattigan
56. Dracula - Liz Lochhead adapted from Bram Stoker's novel
57. Henry VIII or All is True (staged reading) - William Shakespeare & John Fletcher
58. The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery - David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin jr.
59. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
60. Around The World in 8 Plays - Patrick Greene and Jason Pizzarello
61. In the Club - Richard Bean
62. Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
63. Peter Pan - JM Barrie (John Caird and Trevor Nunn)
64. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
65. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
66. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
67. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
    adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
68. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
69. Tom Paine - Paul Foster
70. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
71. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
72. This Story of Yours - John Hopkins
73. King John - William Shakespeare
74. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
75. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
76. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
77. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
78. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
79. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
80. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
81. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
82. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
83. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
84. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
85. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
86. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
87. Iron - Rona Munro
88. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn

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