Great Expectations adapted by Bathsheba Doran

"An excellent adaptation... Delightful family fare!"

"Delights and amazes in its entirety."

"Bathsheba Doran's adaptation of the classic by Dickens is succinctly written, preserving the novel's most impacting elements. She continues to deliver interesting and refreshing material to the New York downtown theater scene -- this time by giving a fresh face to an old classic that is never mired in narrative but gallops along at a brisk pace."

"Highly appealing."

"Spare and elegant, director Will Pomerantz's staging of Bathsheba Doran's fleet adaptation and condensation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectation for TheatreworksUSA, which opened last night at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Greenwich Village, may be designed for and targeted at young people, but it is a production that any theater that produces solely for adults would be proud to claim as its own."

"In the new (and only 90-minute) stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' masterpiece Great Expectations, playwright Bathsheba Doran accomplishes the immensely difficult task of putting up on stage all of Dickens' wonderful characters and making a full-length play out of it."

"...Unveils Dickens' masterpiece for a new generation. ...Succeeds in making the densely plotted work accessible."

"An affable adaptation... Bathsheba Doran succeeds in translating Dickens' tale for the stage, reminding us of the timeless pleasures of a good yarn."