2023 - Bleak Expectations

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Production Overview

Opens: 15th November 2023
Closes: 18th November 2023
Venue: Guildhall Arts Centre, Grantham
Director: Rosemary Gibson

Production Synopsis

Leave logic at home and escape with a very silly romp through the Dickensian universe.

Follow half-orphan Pip Bin as he ricochets across Dickensian England, attempting to evade his evil nemesis Mr Gently Benevolent. Can Pip, his sisters Pippa and Poppy, and best friend Harry Biscuit overcome hardship and misfortune to secure their own happy ending?

If you can’t already tell, this is a lovingly ludicrous parody of Charles Dickens, complete with extravagant names, quintessentially British reactions to disaster and heart-fluttering romance.

Based on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, this play is fresh from the West End and GDS has secured another regional premiere.

Production Cast and Creatives

Cast

Sir Philip Bin - Paul Connor & Matthew Wilson (In Turn)
Agnes Bin - Joy Wilson
Thomas Bin - Leigh Matsell
Pip Bin - Briony Sprarrow
Pippa Bin - Aimee Matsell
Poppy Bin - Carla Hibbit
Skinflint Parsmimonious/Reverend - Daniele Petruzzo
Gently Benevolent - Gus Sparrow
Bakewell Havertwitch - Gary Cadwallader
Harry Biscuit - Nick Kime
Headmaster Wackwell Hardtrasher - John Webber
Reverend Praygood Hardtrasher - John Webber
Miss Chastity Hardtrasher - John Webber
Judge Solomon Hardtrasher - John Webber
Broadly Fecund - Jim Snee
Ripely Fecund - Victoria Dexter
Flora Dies-Early - Nyla Shaw
Crutch Person / Court Official - Peter Mole
Mrs Convenient Exposition - Gillie Vincent
Queen Victoria - Sue Taylor

Creatives

TBC