Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist - Adapted by Nigel Bryant from the original by Charles Dickens
Performed: 10th - 14th May 2011
Director: Mark Smithers
Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker, from whence he escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is lead to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin, naively unaware of their unlawful activities.
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Cast (in order of appearance)
Old Sally - Jackie Brighouse
Mrs Mann - Lucinda Toomey
Bumble - Gary Swain
Oliver - Daniel Peckett
Woman Server - Liz Smith
Mrs Sowerberry - Diane White
Charlotte - Vicky Bevan
Dodger - Callum Rowlson
Charley Bates - Elliot Relton-Williams
Fagin - Chris Smith
Brownlow - Nigel Owen
Sikes - Mark Treen
Nancy - Lucy Smith
Mrs Bedwin - Audrey Hunter
Grimwig - Derek Hibbard
Old Woman - June Clayton
Toby - David Healey
Rose - Gemma Bond
Monks - Richard O’Donnell
All other characters by members of the cast.
Crew
Marrianne Smith, Julianna Swain, Kay Freemantle, Julie Sefton, Kate Hill, Ellis Smithers
Productions
- strangers on a train
- Life and Beth
- Pygmalion
- Two One Act Plays
- Outside edge
- Frankenstein
- Farndale "A Christmas Carol"
- The Foreigner
- Pullin the wool
- Passing Strangers
- Silent Night & Whodidit
- Steel Magnolias
- Guilty Secret
- I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
- Noises Off
- Safari Party
- Neighbourhood Watch
- On Air
- London Suite
- Sweeney Todd
- Duets
- Make Way For Lucia
- Girls' Night
- Underground
- Inspector Drake's Last Case
- Abigail's Party
- Oliver Twist
- Alphabetical Order
- Fatal Encounter
- An Inspector Calls
Next production
October 9th -13th 2023
Monday to Friday 7.30 pm
Into The Breeches
By George Brant
Produced by Daniel Peckett and Katie McGee
Booking office now open
Tickets £8
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