Current & Upcoming Shows
Details of our current shows at The Harbour Theatre are below. Please click here to view a list of all current, upcoming and past shows.
The story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin… Follow half-orphan Pip’s extraordinary exploits with sisters Pippa and Poppy and best friend Harry Biscuit, as they attempt to escape the calculating clutches of the dastardly Mr Gently Benevolent, defeat the hideous Hardthrasher siblings, and deflect disaster at every turn!
Will evil be vanquished by virtue? Can love triumph over hate?
Mark Evans’ stage play Bleak Expectations is a hilarious, chaotic caper, featuring dastardly villains, preposterous names, pulse-quickening romances, heart-rending death scenes, and definitely, probably, hopefully a happy ending. Based on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, the play opened at The Watermill Theatre, Newbury, in 2022, directed by Caroline Leslie.
Harbour Theatre, Hope Street
Cast –
Sir Philip Bin – Rachel Turberville-Smith
Pip Bin – Laura-Jane Parsons
Agnes Bin – Catherine Aherne
Thomas Bin – Alan Dennis
Poppy Bin – Sam Kelly
Pippa Bin – Renee Brown
Harry Biscuit – Jess Windsor
Skinflint Parsimonious – Fiona Sinclair
Mr Gently Benevolent – Nathan White
Bakewell Havertwitch – Lynn Cockerill
Headmaster Wackwell Hardthrasher – Chris Walker
Reverend Praygood Hardthrasher – Matt Broad
Miss Chastity Hardthrasher – Julie Knight
Judge Solomon Hardthrasher – Mark Lancaster
Broadly Fecund – Paul Gorsuch
Ripely Fecund – Jane Lunn
Flora Dies Early – Phoebe Borton
Lily Haversac – Rose Goldthrope
Various Ensemble Parts – Felix Olsen