Bleak Expectations, by Mark Evans

Dates and times

Tue 13th January at 7:30pm
Wed 14th January at 7:30pm
Thu 15th January at 7:30pm
Fri 16th January at 7:30pm
Sat 17th January at 2:30pm
Sat 17th January at 7:30pm

The story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin…

If you think you know the story of Great Expectations, it might be better to leave your literary knowledge at home! Will Pip escape the clutches of the dastardly Mr Gently Benevolent and defeat the hideous Hardthrasher siblings?

Our cast is:

Sir Philip Bin – Charles Hilsdon
Pip Bin – Cormac Murphy
Thomas Bin / Bakewell Havertwitch / Boulange-Bien – Ben Reid
Agnes Bin – Lizzie Murphy
Pippa Bin – Emma Beckett
Poppy Bin – Sophie Marlowe
Gently Benevolent / Harland J. Trashcan – Steve Feeney
Skinflint Parsimonious / Broadly Fecund / Vicar – Barry Watson
Headmaster Wackwell Hardthrasher / Rev. Praygood Hardthrasher / Miss Chastity Hardthrasher / Judge Solomon Hardthrasher – Den Murphy
Harry Biscuit – Ben Brooks
Ripely Fecund – Lisa Hilton
Flora Dies-Early / Female cover – Nanda Marchant

Tickets £16 are on sale from 16th December online and in person from the theatre office Monday to Saturday mornings from 9.30-12.30.

An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books