Bleak Expectations, Criterion Theatre review - popular radio comedy takes to the stage
Entertaining mash-up of Dickensian tropes. Theatre review by Jane Edwardes
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Entertaining mash-up of Dickensian tropes. Theatre review by Jane Edwardes
Bleak Expectations is based on Mark Evans' Radio 4 parody of Charles Dickens.
|The show is adapted from the Radio 4 series ||London|
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Bleak Expectations - Radio 4's Dickens spoof hits the West End