A Pirate Productions and New World Theatre Club joint production.
By Lionel Bart.
Directed by Neil Johnson.

Performed 14th to 17th April 2016 at the Kinneksbond, Mamer.

Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Oliver’s birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run workhouse where he is bullied into asking for more food by the other young orphans. He narrowly escapes a beating and is eventually apprenticed to a local undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. Desperately unhappy, Oliver runs away at dawn and travels to London where he meets Jack Dawkins, a boy his own age. Jack (otherwise known as “The Artful Dodger”) offers him shelter in the London house of his benefactor, Fagin.  However, Fagin is actually a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick pockets for him.  After a few days of training, Oliver is sent on a pickpocketing mission with disastrous results.

With a cast of over 40 children and 40 adults, set in Victorian London, Oliver! is rightly considered a classic of musical theatre and is a joyous evening out for all the family.

This production was performed in English with a live orchestra.

Fagin’s gang image © 2016 Alfonso Salgueiro.