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Oliver! is the perfect musical for our credit crunch times, packed with unhealthy school dinners, growing poverty and kids drawn to gang culture and crime. It will steal your heart. Please sir, can I have some more?
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Bringing Charles Dickens’ beloved novel to life, Lionel Bart’s Oliver! takes audiences on a wild adventure through Victorian England. Join young, orphaned Oliver Twist as he navigates London’s underworld of theft and violence, searching for a home, a family, and – most importantly – love. When Oliver is picked up on the street by a boy named the Artful Dodger, he’s welcomed into a gang of child pickpockets led by the conniving, but charismatic, Fagin. When he’s falsely accused of a theft he didn’t commit, Oliver is rescued by a kind and wealthy gentleman, to the dismay of Fagin’s violent sidekick, Bill Sikes. Caught in the middle is the warm-hearted Nancy, who’s trapped under Bill’s thumb, but desperate to help Oliver, with tragic results. With spirited, timeless songs such as As Long as He Needs Me, Food, Glorious Food, and Where Is Love?, Oliver! is a musical classic.
Children Teams : Below is a list of which children will appear in which performance. If you need further detail, please talk to the production team.
Oliver! is the perfect musical for our credit crunch times, packed with unhealthy school dinners, growing poverty and kids drawn to gang culture and crime. It will steal your heart. Please sir, can I have some more?
Oliver! secured a combined total of 19 Academy Award nominations, the most nominations for musicals from one studio in a year.
His (Bart’s) Oliver! remains as good and revivable as anything he wrote.
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Oliver!
Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist did have racist overtones in the form of Fagin’s characterisation which the musical adaption does not dwell on and indeed the author himself tries to eliminate in his own script narrative. This production will also not continue to make Fagin’s heritage a harmful stereotype. As the play is based on Dickens’ work, there are some characters that require being played by certain genders to remain authentic to both authors’ work, however for the majority of casting there is no diversity stipulation and therefore we welcome a mixed cast of all ages, ethnicities and genders.
Part 1, 18th Jan 8pm
Part 2, 19th Jan 8pm
Parts 1+2 20th Jan 2.30pm
Part 1, 23rd Jan 8pm
Part 2, 24th Jan 8pm
Part 1, 25th Jan 8pm
Part 2, 26th Jan 8pm
Part 1, 27th Jan 2.30pm
Part 2, 27th Jan 8pm