Adapted by Jason Kenyon
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
ArtsCentreTheatre present a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ celebrated tale of the dark underbelly of Victorian London; a grim world of squalor and depravity inhabited by pickpockets, thieves, murderers and prostitutes.
Dickens uses Oliver Twist – a young workhouse boy, orphaned at birth and raised by a brutal and uncaring system – as his reader’s guide as the child makes his way through this ugly, gruesome world; an innocent amid the damned…
Jason Kenyon’s adaptation ignores some rather famous, and tuneful, earlier retellings and returns to Dickens’ original text to ask the question: when your theatre company is made up of thespians aged eighteen to eight hundred, how do you tell the tale of possibly the world’s most famous nine-year-old waif?
The answer may surprise you!
