by Charles Dickens Adapted by Lucinda Stroud Directed by Kevin McKeon
February 8 – March 13, 2011 Previews: February 8-10 Opening Night: Friday, February 11 Student Matineés: February 16, March 8 & 9 Center House Theatre, Seattle Center
Pip (Lee Osorio) & Estella (Sylvie Davidson). Photo by Alan Alabastro.
“My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue would make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.” —the opening of Great Expectations
A terrifying graveyard encounter with an escaped convict; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of an unknown benefactor—this series of events changes the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly flees his humble origins in favor of a new life as a gentleman in London. Dickens' haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers that having “expectations” is a double-edged sword.
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