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. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
2. Romeo and Juliet - A Senior Youth Theatre Production - William Shakespeare
3. Bette and Joan - Anton Burge
4. The Railway Children (stage version) - E. Nesbit adapted by Mike Kenny
5. Richard II - William Shakespeare
6. Kindertransport - Diane Samuels
7. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
8. The Death of Miss Gloria Starr - Devised by the cast
9. Metamorphosis - Steven Berkoff, from the classic story by Franz Kafka
10. The Seagull - Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Torben Betts
11. The History of Cardenio - William Shakespeare, John Fletcher and Gary Taylor
12. The Snow Dragons - Lizzie Nunnery
13. The Weir - Conor McPherson
14. Oh! What a Lovely War - Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop
15. The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
16. Tom and Viv - Michael Hastings
17. As You Like It - William Shakespeare
18. Toad of Toad Hall - A. A. Milne - A play from Kenneth Grahame’s book ‘The Wind in the Willows’ Music by H Fraser-Simson
19. Collaborators - John Hodge
20. Boeing-Boeing - Marc Camoletti translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans
21. We Are Three Sisters - Blake Morrison
22. THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO - Lee Hall from Carlo Collodi’s original tale
23. The White Devil - John Webster
24. The Adventures of Dick Whittington and his Cat - Dickon Williamson
25. King Lear - William Shakespeare
26. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
27. Coraline - from the novel by Neil Gaiman
28. Night Must Fall - Emlyn Williams
29. All’s Well that Ends Well - William Shakespeare
30. The Government Inspector - Nikolai Gogol, adapted by D. J. Campbell
31. Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov, in a version by Christopher Hampton
32. Egad! The Woman in White - Tim Kelly
33. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs
34. Master Shakeshafte - Peter Parkinson
35. Love’s Labour’s Lost - William Shakespeare
36. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie, Tim Supple and David Tushingham
37. From These Green Heights - Dermot Bolger
38. Othello - William Shakespeare
39. Blood Wedding (Youth Theatre) - Federico García Lorca - Translation by Gwynne Edwards
40. The Chalk Garden - Enid Bagnold
41. A Tender Thing - Ben Power
42. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
43. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
44. Educating Rita - Willy Russell
45. The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
46. Robin Hood - David Barrett
47. Double Bill: Leonardo’s Last Supper and Laughter (Part II) - Peter Barnes
48. Designs on Ladies - Georges Feydeau, translated by David King, adapted by Rodney Figaro
49. Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco, translated by Martin Crimp
50. Once in a Lifetime - Moss Hart & George S Kaufman
51. The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Rattigan
52. Dracula - Liz Lochhead adapted from Bram Stoker's novel
53. Henry VIII or All is True (staged reading) - William Shakespeare & John Fletcher
54. The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery - David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin jr.
55. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
56. Around The World in 8 Plays - Patrick Greene and Jason Pizzarello
57. In the Club - Richard Bean
58. Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
59. Peter Pan - JM Barrie (John Caird and Trevor Nunn)
60. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
61. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
62. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
63. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
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64. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
65. Tom Paine - Paul Foster
66. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
67. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
68. This Story of Yours - John Hopkins
69. King John - William Shakespeare
70. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
71. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
72. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
73. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
74. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
75. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
76. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
77. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
78. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
79. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
80. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
81. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
82. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
83. Iron - Rona Munro
84. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
85. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
86. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
87. Moonlight and Magnolias - Ron Hutchinson
88. Lulu - Frank Wedekind, in a version by Peter Barnes
89. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
90. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
91. Harvey - Mary Chase
92. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
93. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty

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