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OLIVER TWIST
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16 December 2009
Lion and Union Theatre, Gaisford Street, NW5 Giant Olive Theatre Company's production pulls no punches, subjecting the viewer to the full realism of a life of poverty in Victorian London. |
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Oliver Twist - Pure Dickens – dark and brilliantly twisted
OLIVER TWIST
Lion and Unicorn
It promises “no singing, no dancing, just pure Dickens”. And this adaptation of Oliver Twist at the Lion and Unicorn delivers no less.
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Oliver Twist
Published Monday 7 December 2009 at 12:55 by Catherine Usher
This depiction of Dickens’ Oliver Twist is awash with brutality from the outset. In the opening scene, a mother and daughter are dragged into the workhouse kicking and screaming, while children are beaten soundlessly. As far removed as they can be from the cheeky, dancing urchins of the popular musical productions, although this interpretation is disturbing, the violence is never gratuitous.
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