Oliver Twist

Inspired by the vivid world of the Victorian music-hall, Neil Bartlett’s staging of Oliver Twist uses the original language of Dickens’s novel to dramatize one of the most deeply felt stories ever written about childhood. A cast of unforgettable characters brings the underworld of 19th-century London to thrilling life – a city teeming with danger and fear – all seen through the eyes of a bewildered child. By turns comic and tragic, musical and dramatic, Bartlett’s Twist took London by storm.