Dickens’ Great Expectations

co-produced with Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon
Persephone Theatre
September-October 2010
Presented by Gateway Theatre
February 2011

Adapted by Errol Durbach
Directed by John Wright
Associate Director Johnna Wright
Set, Lighting & Projections Design by Robert Gardiner
Costume Design by Marti Wright
Musical Direction by Deborah Buck
Sound Design by Jody Longworth
Stage Managed by Laura Kennedy / Angela Beaulieu
Assistant Stage Manager Diana Domm
Production Management by Jody Longworth / Jayson McLean

CAST: Kent Allen, Robert Benz, Angela Christie, Ted Cole, Mia K. Ingimundson, Anthony F. Ingram, Christian McQueen (Persephone), Olivia Bell (Persephone), Andrea Menard, Robert Moloney, Madelin Prekaski (Gateway), Simon Webb, Jordan Wessels (Gateway), Susan Williamson, Henry Woolf

SATAward:
Simon Webb, Outstanding Supporting Performance

Young Artist Award Nomination:
Jorden Wessels, Best Performance in Live Theatre

photos by Kenneth T. Williams


Dickens’ Great Expectations is a mysterious tale of love, loss and redemption that cemented the author’s fame in his lifetime.

Pip, an orphaned child apprenticed to a blacksmith, finds his life profoundly changed when he is made wealthy by an unknown benefactor. Pip is outfitted as a gentleman and is sent to London to begin training for his new station in life. His shocking discovery about the source of his good fortune is riveting storytelling.

  • Christian McQueen, Kent Allen