Edinburgh Theater
Popular plays staged at Edinburgh include
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens well-known and poignant story adapted for the stage by Hug Leonard. Mysterious people enter the life of the young orphan called Pip. Once in a misty graveyard, he is accosted by an escaping convict needing help. Pip brings a file and food and witnesses a desperate struggle with an unknown man. Pip is later entertained and bedeviled by the strange Miss Havisham and a beautiful young protege, Estella. Years later, Pip comes into a mysterious fortune. The now arrogant Pip boards a coach to London to join the ranks of the idle rich young gentlemen. He assumes that he is being groomed to marry Estella. The convict returns to reveal that it is he who is responsible for Pip’s fortune. Eventually, after learning much about human frailty and steadfastness, malevolence, and kindness, Pip becomes a wiser man. Many years later, he meets again the dazzling beauty Estella in the ruins of Ms. Havisham’s garden, where he comes to terms with the illusions and promises of his “great expectations.”
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