Great Expectations

Set in mid-Victorian England, it tells of Pip’s impoverished rural childhood, during which he helps a run-away convict and is engaged by the wealthy, eccentric Miss Havisham as a play-thing for her adopted daughter Estella; with whom he falls in love. An unexpected fortune from a mysterious benefactor propels him, as a young man, into London’s high society where his new status suddenly makes marriage to Estella a real possibility. Expect a series of dramatic revelations concerning his past, which, unsettle and threaten his future, drawing events to a thrilling conclusion in which Pip discovers his true self.