Theatre Royal, Bristol: With only nine cast members, a Greek chorus and a black actor playing Miss Havisham, this is no television-sanitised version of Dickens's great dark-hearted morality tale. Rather, the Bristol Old Vic have served up a sinewy and compelling interpretation that marks the return to Bristol of director Neil Bartlett for the first time since he trained at the theatre school in 1981. Read the fu…
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:41AM on October 3, 2013