Bleak Expectations
by Mark Evans
13th – 17th May 2025
Walkington Village Hall
Directed by Claire Sreeves and Brian Shaw
We are delighted to announce this year’s play is Bleak Expectations by Mark Evans
This is the story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin… Mark Evans’ stage play Bleak Expectations is a hilarious, chaotic caper, featuring dastardly villains, preposterous names, pulse-quickening romances, heart-rending death scenes, and definitely, probably, hopefully a happy ending.
A fast-paced comedy mashup that sends up Britishness with oodles of silliness… zings with intelligence, imagination and comic anarchy
Dickens with a dash of Monty Python… nimbly combines period detail with a sense of the absurd… immaculately polished puns and in-jokes
This year we are supporting
TBA
| Sir Phillip Bin | Ben Gardiner |
| Pip Bin (Act One) | Jo Harding |
| Pip Bin (Act Two) | Jane Sharp |
| Harry Biscuit/Skinflint Parsimonious | Chris Day |
| Poppy Bin/Ripely Fecund | Anita Day |
| Gently Benevolent/Trashcan/Vicar | Billy Brebner |
| Thomas Bin/Bakewell Havertwitch/Broadly Fecund | Martin Craven |
| The Hardthrashers | Brian Shaw |
| Agnes Bin/Flora Dies-Early | Deborah Chivers |
| Pippa Bin | Helen Bestley |
| Butler | Julia Brooks |