Bleak Expectations review - Radio 4's Dickens parody bursts on to the stage

Watermill theatre, NewburyThis fast-paced comedy mashup of the great Victorian novelist sends up Britishness with oodles of silliness Some may already know this ticklish literary comedy from the BBC Radio 4 series that premiered in 2007. Now it bursts into life as an adrenalised stage adaptation filled with fast-paced physical comedy, joshing satire and oodles of silliness. Written by Mark Evans and vigorously directed by Caroline Leslie, it is ostensibly a parody of Dickens, as the spliced Blea...