Before Great Expectations, I've never had the chance to properly work with Ivory so playing the relationship between Pip and Miss Havisham was really interesting as well as pretty challenging. Miss Havisham has a almost supernatural like element about herself, something that throws Pip completely off. He's never come across a person like her. He's almost intrigued as well as being frightened of Satis House and Miss Havisham, shown through the hesitation to follow her first orders when he first arrives "play, play, play!".

I really liked working with the Pip chorus as with was interesting to work with a large amount of people that all relate to your character. As Pip’s thoughts were often said and echoed by the Pip chorus rather than said by Pip himself, it gave me a chance to explore using facial expressions and physicality to portray feelings and emotions. This really useful as I haven’t had a major chance to develop these skills in such a way Pip presents them; it also meant I needed to think about the fact that Pip was a young boy, and how a young boy may possibly present these emotions. 

We managed to get through the whole play and do a full run through. Being able to see the whole play as one really puts it into perspective. Knowing all my lines also really helps me develop further with the voice and physicality as I no longer need to look at my script whilst performing and blocking.