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Bleak Expectations

17th July - 19th July 2025
Gulbenkian

The story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin…

Follow half-orphan Pip’s extraordinary exploits with sisters Pippa and Poppy and best friend Harry Biscuit, as they attempt to escape the calculating clutches of the dastardly Mr Gently Benevolent, defeat the hideous Hardthrasher siblings, and deflect disaster at every turn!

Will evil be vanquished by virtue? Can love triumph over hate? Bleak Expectations is a hilarious, chaotic caper, featuring dastardly villains, prosperous names, pulse-quickening romances, heart-rending death scenes, and definitely, probably, hopefully a happy ending.

Based on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series by Mark Evans, this is a gloriously daft Dickensian romp which will have audiences joyfully transported and begging for more.

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£16

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Bleak Expectations The Gulbenkian, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NB
CT2 7NB

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boxoffice@kent.ac.uk 01227 769075

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