Great Expectations

Reviews

'Great Expectations continues a line of inventive and highly professional work emerging from Tim Baker’s imagination over many years.'

Steve Blandford, PLANET (The Welsh Internationist), Spring 2009

'Given director Tim Baker’s track record for adapting novels it’s no surprise that he should turn to Great Expectations. ….a fine, theatrical adaptation of Dickens’ novel.'

The Stage

'Tim Baker’s new production at Clwyd Theatr Cymm in Mold of Dickens' classic Great Expectations lives up to Baker's deserved reputation. He has turned this great baggy, Victorian novel into a tight, well-crafted musical play, with a strong cast and some memorable songs. It is a marvellous evening and an en­tertaining piece of theatre with many res­onances for today's credit-crunch Britain.'

Gail Cooper, Western Mail *****

The Grapes of Wrath

Reviews

'The great merit of this production is that it presents many vividly realised pictures, yet never loses sight of the bigger one.'

The Guardian *****

'Clwyd Theatr Cymru's Tim Baker has dismembered the novel to create a memorable stage production, beautifully sung and acted, with a powerful modern resonance.'

Gail Cooper, Western Mail

'Tim Baker’s powerful epic production brings Steinbeck’s characters to full-blooded life, as well as the ferocity of the author’s anger at the desperate plight of the families forced to flee the American dustbowl only to find the promised paradise of California a living hell.'

The Stage