The Acting Company 'Great Expectations'
7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 14, 2026 | Yardley Hall
Tickets start at $25.
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The Acting Company reinvigorates Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” with an effervescent stage adaptation brimming with unexpected hilarity and romantic heart.
Akin to a bingeable dramedy carved with the beautiful prose that made Dickens so popular, Nikki Massoud’s take on this timeless novel is uproarious and thrilling. It’s filled with escaped prisoners, wealthy and terrifying eccentrics, decaying mansions, and a stunning, young heiress of ruthless intelligence.
Audiences of all ages will fall for this surprisingly relatable story about a young man’s harrowing journey from working-class orphan to a life of privilege and power.
Pre-show lecture with Dr. Andrea Broomfield at 6:30 p.m.
Free; no reservation required.
Great Expectations is much about love and about lost, unrequited love (remember the wedding cake?). Join Dr. Andrea Broomfield, Professor and Chair of the English Department at JCCC, as she helps audiences understand the role food plays in the novel (as well as other novels by Dickens) that can be lost on readers today, but was very accessible to the middle-class Victorians who adored Dickens’ fiction.
Andrea Broomfield is an English professor and the chairperson of the English Department at JCCC. She is the author of Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History and most recently Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City. Currently, she is finishing a three-part series on the English culinarian, Florence White, for Petit Propos Culinaire, a food studies journal, as well as writing a paper for the upcoming Dublin Gastronomy Symposium entitled, “When Michelin Came (Back) to Town: The Intensifying Crisis over British Regional Food Heritage, 1969-1985."
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A partnership with the Friends of Johnson County Library
