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Great Expectations (Leonard)

Great Expectations (Leonard)

Charles Dickens, Hugh Leonard

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Great Expectations (Leonard)

Great Expectations (Leonard)

Charles Dickens, Hugh Leonard

Overview

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.

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  • Genre: Adaptation (Literature), Period
  • Time Period: 19th Century
  • Cast Attributes: Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible)
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for All Audiences

Authors

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-1870), one of the most popular and prolific writers of the 19th 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 fa ...

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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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