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Great Expectations
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| Peter Coe adapted and directed a production of
Great Expectations which opened at London's Old Vic on
December 26, 1984. |
Though considered by many to be Dickens’s
finest novel, Great Expectations has never been easy to stage.
Some critics have claimed that his later novels – this was his
thirteenth – became less inclined to theatrical techniques and
mannerisms and more purely “novelistic.” This challenge
has proven irresistible to playwrights and Great Expectations still,
on occasion, surfaces onstage.
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Scene from 1992 production of GREAT
EXPECTATIONS at Paper Mill Playhouse, written and directed by
Robert Johanson. Pictured left to right are Michael James Reed
as Older Pip, Darren Edward Higgins as Younger Pip, Elizabeth
Franz as Miss Havisham and Jennifer Holmes as Younger Estella.Photo
by Jerry Dalia
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