This isn’t the sort of show I’d ordinarily go for these days. It’s a bit like those shows at the Edinburgh Fringe that take a ...

had heard of Miss Havisham up town — as an immensely rich and grim old lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion," Dickens wrote.

Pip meets Miss Havisham and falls in love with Estella Pip is taken to meet Miss Havisham, an eccentric lady who has shut herself away ever since her wedding was called off at the last minute.