WATCH: Meet the Cast: Eddie Izzard in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations - Eddie Izzard takes the stage as 19 different characters
Happy opening to Eddie Izzard's one-woman Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Set in Kent and London in the 1820s to 1830s, the play contains some of Dickens's most celebrated characters"all of whom are portrayed by Izzard. TDF talked to Izzard, her brother Mark Izzard (book), director Selina Cadell and movement director Didi Hopkins about putting Pip in Izzard's step and adapting the classic novel for the solo s…