"If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces... love her, love her, love her!"

Philip Pirrip, commonly known as Pip, has been brought up by hand. This is not a good thing. Orphaned as a baby, his childhood has been spent at the mercy of his wrathful sister; a situation sweetened only by the presence of her angelic husband, Joe.

One day Pip meets the extraordinary Miss Havisham, a wealthy, embittered woman who lives amongst the relics of a wedding day that never happened. Thrust into a world of wealth and deceit, Pip abandons his humble origins and falls helplessly in love with Miss Havisham’s beautiful adopted daughter, Estella.

But Estella has been bred for a special, sinister purpose, and his acquaintance with the two women sets him on a course that promises to jeopardise his future character and devastate his great expectations.

Packed with intrigue, convicts and other delightful characters, Dickens’ masterly ode to youth, hope and the resilience of the human spirit is brought vividly to the stage in this stunning new adaptation.

'Great Expectations' toured to Rye Arts Festival, Thame Arts and Literature Festival, Ingatestone Hall, Barons Court Theatre and Alfriston Village Festival

Adapted & Directed by Connie Stephens

Produced by James Baker & Connie Stephens

Photos © Goldmund Photography