Colchester’s Mercury Theatre have announced the full cast for their upcoming production of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, which plays at the venue from 12-27 May.

Adapted by Gale Childs Daly, Ryan McBryde directs Stanton Wright (Twelfth Night, RSC) as Pip, alongside Bessy Ewa (& Juliet, West End), Jim Fish (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, West End), Gareth Kennerley (Trouble in Butetown, Donmar Warehouse), Sam Lupton (Bedknobs & Broomsticks, UK tour) and Emily Pollet (Hay Fever, UK tour).

Following the childhood and young adult years of a blacksmith’s apprentice, Dickens’ much loved protagonist Pip comes into a large fortune from a mysterious benefactor and moves to London where he enters high society.

The production is designed by Libby Todd, with lighting by Rajiv Pattani, sound/composition by Stefan Janik, movement direction by Chihiro Kawasaki, and casting by Natalie Gallacher c/o Pippa Ailion Casting.

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