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Dickens parody Bleak Expectations, based on the radio series of the same name, is heading to Hitchins Queen Mother Theatre next month.

This week, Stephen Fry is treading the boards as the narrator in Bleak Expectations during the production's final week of performances at the West End’s Criterion Theatre. Check out a photo of him here!

This week, Jack Dee is treading the boards at the West End’s Criterion Theatre as the narrator in Bleak Expectations. Get a first look at Jack in the photos here!

This week, Tom Allen is treading the boards at the West End’s Criterion Theatre as the narrator in Bleak Expectations. Tom returns to Bleak Expectations having played the role of Pip in the original BBC Radio 4 series. Check out a first look at Tom in the role in the photo here!

Bleak Expectations to close early - West End version of Radio 4s Dickensian comedy curtails its run

Entertaining mash-up of Dickensian tropes. Theatre review by Jane Edwardes

Criterion Theatre|Tom Allen ,Adjoa Andoh ,Alexander Armstrong ,Jo Brand ,Jack Dee ,Stephen Fry ,Nish Kumar ,Lee Mack ,Stephen Mangan ,Ben Miller ,Sue Perkins |Mark Evans,Watermill Theatre Production,Caroline Leslie,Kate Lias,Andrew Exeter,Ella Wahlstom,Lucy Jenkins (casting),Sooki McShane (casting),Tom Pigott-Smith

To borrow one of the show’s parodic lines: please sir, could we have some less

As we wait to throw off our thermals and the sun to show its face, London has some theatrical treats to tickle your tastebuds this May.

Bleak Expectations starts its West End run - The weeks best live comedy