Great Expectations review " Jane Asher's sinister spinster is height of gothic horror
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsLucy Bailey's production, based on a new adaptation by Michael Eaton, gives the most theatrical of Dickens's novels the frightful drama it deservesThe most theatrical of novelists, Dickens knew how to conjure an indelible opening scene: the prehistoric fog of Bleak House; the black Thames waters of Our Mutual Friend; the best of times, the worst of times. Yet none of his novels is more …