Julie Clare Productions
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Miss Havisham's Expectations
Trafalgar Studio
Award-winning actress Linda Marlowe (The World’s Wife, Berkoff’s Women) starred in Miss Havisham’s Expectations as the iconic jilted bride ‘Norma’ Havisham, forever in her wedding dress alongside the stopped clock and untouched cake - a tale of passion, vengeance and more than a little magic.
The show, which had a successful run at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe, was an original take on one of Dickens’ best loved novels. Wrestling with love, loss and ageing our heroine replayed episodes from the novel from her perspective – at times darkly funny as she explodes the stereotype with laudanum-fuelled relish.
Drawing on the text of Great Expectations, biographical material from Dickens’ own life and original material, writer-director Di Sherlock takes Miss Havisham and the audience on a roller-coaster ride through what it means to be a woman both then and now.
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★★★★
“Linda Marlowe dissects Miss Havisham’s Expectations with burning eyes, savage cheekbones, a singed and stained wedding dress and mad grey dreadlocks. You’re afraid to take your eyes off her in case she attacks, like a cougar…Her scary hag-dancing is riveting…I long one day to see a duel between her Havisham and Simon Callow’s Dickens…Seduces with a riot of vivid imagery and a firework display of virtuoso acting.”
The Times
★★★★
"...a Dickens of a treat... a theatrical maze of memories and magic... a box of delights that is one of the most original Dickens celebrations imaginable."
Michael Coveney, What's On Stage
★★★★
"Luminous...remarkable...do yourselves a favour and see Linda Marlowe in this strangely magical play"
BritishTheatre.com
