Watford PalaceTanika Gupta's stage adaptation transposes Dickens's story of Pip, whose childhood encounter on the marshes with an escaped convict leads to future riches, to India in the mid-19th century, during the British Raj. Magwitch the convict becomes a black Cape Colony sailor who curses "the white devils", and Pip is a poor village boy " living with his bossy sister and her kindly cobbler husband, Joe " w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AM on March 13, 2011