Miss Havisham desires to raise her beautiful ward, Estella, to break men's hearts, including Pip's. As Pip visits Miss Havisham, he becomes infatuated with Estella, who treats him with disdain ...

as though she were devouring the beautiful creature she had reared. Repeating the word 'hung' gives the reader a sense of the powerful nature of Miss Havisham’s emotions towards Estella.

This one-woman show opens with a ghoulish, macabre set that perfectly establishes the tone for this exploration of Miss Havisham from Dickens's Great Expectations. The play cleverly addresses the ...

And how will he handle the strange characters he meets along the way – especially the tortured Miss Havisham and the arrogant, beautiful Estella? In the opening moments of the first full-length ...

We met the older Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. In the novel she is an elderly woman who insisted on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life after being jilted at the altar.