Great Expectations

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Nick Hern Books, 2012 - Drama - 75 pages
A beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels, bringing it thrillingly to life for the stage. When the orphan Pip meets the convict Magwitch in a graveyard and is forced to help him escape, his life takes a series of unexpected turns. Invited to the house of the mysterious Miss Havisham, he falls in love with her adopted daughter, the beautiful but cold-hearted Estella. Then the generosity of an unknown benefactor sends him to London to become a gentleman. But the truth behind his change of fortune, once revealed, is not what Pip expects ... Eminently actable and stageable, this version is also ideal for schools and amateur theatre companies.

About the author (2012)

Jo Clifford (formerly known as John Clifford) is an award-winning playwright, translator, poet and performer, who has also worked as a journalist and academic. She was instrumental in establishing the reputation of the Traverse Theatre Company in the 1980s.She is the author of about eighty plays, many of which have been performed all over the world. They include: Losing Venice, Every One, Faust and The Tree of Knowledge. Her adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations makes her the first openly transgendered woman playwright to have had a play on in London's West End.

Bibliographic information

TitleGreat Expectations
NHB Modern Plays Series
ContributorsJo Clifford, Simon Callow, Lucinda Hawksley
PublisherNick Hern Books, 2012
ISBN1848420676, 9781848420670
Length75 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Drama / General
Fiction / Coming of Age
Fiction / Literary
  
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