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Bleak Expectations

Bleak Expectations

This Spring, the cream of British comedy and acting talent took on the career-defiling role of The Narrator, in the riotous new comedy classic – Bleak Expectations.

 

‘ZINGS WITH INTELLIGENCE & IMAGINATION’’
The Guardian

 

Based on the award-winning radio series by Mark Evans, Bleak Expectations takes you on a joyfully anarchic journey through Dickensian London and beyond. Follow the heroic misadventures of young Pip Bin as he battles mistaken identities, contemptible conspiracies and surreal plot twists in his quest to save his family and find true love..

 

A SPECIAL GUEST STAR NARRATOR EACH WEEK!

MAY: Nina Wadia, Dermot O’Leary, Sally Phillips, Robert Lindsay, Sue Perkins

JUNE: Julian Clary, Adjoa Andoh, Craig Ferguson, Lee Mack

JULY: Stephen Mangan, Hugh Dennis, Tom Allen, Jack Dee

AUGUST: Alexander Armstrong, Stephen Fry

 

A Bleaking unforgettable night of laugh-out-loud comedy action, previously at London's Criterion Theatre.

Cast:

Ashh Blackwood as Agnes Bin / Flora Dies Early

Shane David-Joseph as Thomas Bin / Bakewell Havertwitch / Broadly Fecund

J.J Henry as Harry Biscuit

John Hopkins as Gently Benevolent

Dom Hodson as Pip Bin

Serena Manteghi as Pippa Bin

Marc Pickering as The Hardthrashers

Rachel Summers as Poppy Bin / Ripely Fecund

The understudies are Conor Dumbrell, Eric Mallett, and Emily Waters

LOVINGLY LUDICROUS & LARGERTHAN LIFE - The Times
ENGLISH ECCENTRICITY AT ITSMADCAP BEST - Daily Telegraph
TERRIFICALLY SPIRITED. LOTS OFJUICY ONE-LINERS AND RIDICULOUSTWISTS THE CAST TOO IS TERRIFIC -The Guardian
NOTHING LESS THAN EXCEPTIONAL - West End Best Friend

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