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Competition time! Here’s your chance to win two tickets to watch Great Expectations at the Theatre Royal Bath on Monday 4 June June, 7.30pm performance.

All you need to do to have a chance of winning is send an email marked Great Expectations to email hidden; JavaScript is required to arrive with us by 12pm on 31 May 2018. All entries must include your name, address and telephone number.

The winner’s details will be passed on to the Theatre Royal so that the can arrange delivery of the prize.

This new stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic drama, Great Expectations, is bound for the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday 4th to Saturday 9th June with a cast led by multi award-winning Nichola McAuliffe (Surgical Spirit, Victoria, Coronation Street) as the eccentric Miss Havisham.

Peopled by some of Charles Dickens’s most colourful and memorable characters, and painted in rich, vivid colour, this new production promises a powerful and theatrical telling of Dickens’s universally loved masterpiece.

Following a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict, young Pip is given an unexpected chance to better himself by visiting the reclusive and mysterious Miss Havisham. Jilted at the altar, the wealthy spinster still dresses in her wedding gown daily. In the decaying grandeur of her house, Pip falls in love with Estella and, helped by an anonymous benefactor, he moves to the bustling city to pursue his dream of winning Estella’s heart and becoming part of the educated elite.

To purchase tickets contact the Theatre Royal Bath Box Office on 01225 448844 or visit www.theatreroyal.org.uk