‘Great Expectations’ review
On paper, this sounds a dream: a new big-screen adaptation of one of Dickens’ strongest, most beloved stories, featuring a cast of British heavyweights.
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On paper, this sounds a dream: a new big-screen adaptation of one of Dickens’ strongest, most beloved stories, featuring a cast of British heavyweights.
The script is a dazzling theatrical mosaic that requires Simon Callow to play no less than 49 separate characters.
Like the Queen’s Speech and a miserable Christmas in Walford, high quality period dramas are fixed points on our TV screens at Christmas.
Yesterday we went along to the British Library for the launch of Great Expectations, screenwriter Sarah Phelps’s (Oliver Twist, EastEnders) three-part take on Dickens’ classic novel about a boy with big dreams who learns that moral worth matters more than social status.
The X Files star Gillian Anderson and Poirot star David Suchet have been cast in a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, set to air this Christmas on BBC One.