Great Expectations by Merton’s Attic Theatre Company

Great Expectations by Merton’s Attic Theatre Company

Posted by Jenny Booth | 2 December 2016 | Arts & Culture

On a frosty winter’s night, enter the book-lined walls of Wimbledon library for a thrilling story of dark secrets, thwarted lives and twisted souls.

Charles Dickens’s characters step off the page into a dramatic production of Great Expectations.

Our guide is Pip, the book’s hero, now older, wiser and sadder. As he decides to revisit the tragic events of his past, the room is transformed from a library to the gloomy, mist-shrouded marshes of 19th Century Kent.

The production, which previewed on Wednesday night and runs until December 18, is by Merton’s only resident professional theatre company, Attic Theatre.

Louise Hill, the director, devised the show around Merton Arts Space, the exciting new 250-seat performance space inside Wimbledon library. Props and set resemble piles of books.

Hill praised the venue: “It has such a buzz about it. There’s a feeling of being where you shouldn’t be, making theatre (and a noise!) in a library after hours.

“It feels appropriate, as we tell the story of Great Expectations, to be surrounded by the hundreds of stories waiting to be discovered on the library shelves.”

Reserve your seats now on attictheatrecompany.com, 020 8640 6800, or in person at Wimbledon library.

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