Samuel Adamson’s wittily meta-theatrical adaptation of Peter Carey’s wittily postmodern adaptation of Charles Dickens’s great novel, Great Expectations. You’re a dead man if they find you. Enigmatic ex-convict Jack Maggs returns from Australia to the murky streets of Victorian London and embarks on a quest to find his ‘son’ Henry Phipps, who has mysteriously disappeared. But soon after he meets Tobias Oates, a young novelist & mesmerist, Maggs becomes ensnared in a dazzling, distorted world of ambition, secrets and unexpected alliances. Samuel Adamson’s ingenious, wildly entertaining adaptation of Peter Carey’s thrilling, bestselling novel opened in November 2024, in a production by the State Theatre Company of South Australia.
