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 Bleak House/Great Expectations title suggests, but sends up a certain kind of Britishness and privilege along the way, from empire to the scourge of boarding schools and 19th century social mores.
