Great Expectations, Theatre Royal, Bristol
Theatre Royal, Bristol: With only nine cast members, a Greek chorus and a black actor playing Miss Havisham, this is no television-sanitised version of Dickens's great dark-hearted morality tale. Rather, the Bristol Old Vic have served up a sinewy and compelling interpretation that marks the return to Bristol of director Neil Bartlett for the first time since he trained at the theatre school in 1981. Read the fu…