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Great Expectations (Leonard)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  5w, 9m

Charles Dickens, Hugh Leonard

Bringing to life all the vivid characters of the original and conveying the story with great clarity, atmosphere and theatrical flair, Hugh Leonard's adaptation of Charles Dickens's most popular novel is both exciting and haunting.…

Great Expectations (Leonard)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 9m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptation (Literature), Period
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences

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Summary

Bringing to life all the vivid characters of the original and conveying the story with great clarity, atmosphere and theatrical flair, Hugh Leonard's adaptation of Charles Dickens's most popular novel is both exciting and haunting.

  • Time Period 19th Century
  • Setting

    Various interior and exterior settings.

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Authors

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century, was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. His father was a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, and in 1824, he was arrested for debt. While his family w ...
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Hugh Leonard

Hugh Leonard
Hugh Leonard was the pen-name of John Keyes Byrne. He was, as Christopher Fitz-Simon has written, `the most prolific and most technically assured of modern Irish playwrights,' and his cosmopolitanism shows in the range of his work: twenty-five plays (eighteen of which have be ...
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