News

Joe Gargery in Great Expectations Joe is the village blacksmith, strong but gentle, kind and forgiving. Though Pip is his wife's (Mrs Joe) younger brother, he treats Pip like a son.
Bathsheba Doran's excellent adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations has 12 principal roles and various other characters. In TheatreworksUSA's scaled-down production, seven actors play ...
Great Expectations is a famous novel written by Charles Dickens. The story tells the tale of an Orphan named Pip who lives with his cruel sister Mrs Joe Gargery and her blacksmith husband Joe.
Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson, David Suchet and Douglas Booth star in Sarah Phelps’s bold new adaptation of Great Expectations, which forms the centrepiece of the BBC’s celebration of Charles ...
One of Great Expectations’ most vivid characters is Pip’s older sister, Mrs. Gargery.She’s reactive, fiery, and beats poor Pip with a stick that she calls Tickler whenever he spends too much ...
Great Expectations’ first published ending, before Dickens was prevailed upon to rewrite it, ... Joe and Mrs Gargery (Sara here) remain together (what with her not getting murdered).
Nae Expectations by Gary McNair (Image: Joe Connolly) JAMIE Marie Leary has every right to feel blessed at the moment, having landed two great Dickensian roles, playing both Estella and Mrs Joe.