Great Expectations, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick: Literary dangers can lurk in any adaptation of a revered work but within minutes of the start of this excellent production - the final Main House offering of the theatre's summer season - it is clear that Neil Bartlett has chosen skilfully the parts of this great novel to dramatise, discarding much of Dickens' episodic padding and moving the action on, scene by scene, with a fe…