Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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Mitchell Theatre, Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, Sydney, Australia
Sat, 12th May 2012 - Sat, 12th May 2012
NSW Dickens Society together with Willow Productions are presenting 'Playing Miss Havisham'. Claudia lives in New Zealand. Her husband is a farm accountant and her son Ben plays in a band. When an eccentric Irish film-maker arrives to make a film of Charles Dickens’s 'Great Expectations', Claudia is keen to audition for the role of Miss Havisham as she sees it as a way out of her humdrum existence. As she prepares for the role, Claudia finds her own life takes on the twists and turns of a Dickens novel. A work of unexpected visual richness, 'Playing Miss Havisham' unfolds with mystery, music and surprise. Starring Helen Moulder as Claudia - complete with wedding dress and cobwebs - and directed by Sue Rider with piano music recorded by Richard Mapp. Interesting note: There is some conjecture Dickens based the character of Miss Havisham on a Sydney socialite Eliza Donnithorne (1826–1886) who was similarly jilted at the altar and lived a very reclusive life thereafter. She is buried in the Camperdown Cemetery at St Stephens Church, Newtown; the grave-site visited by members of the NSW Dickens Society in February 2005.
