Oliver Twist

Alan Bleasdale (Boys From the Black Stuff, GBH, Melissa, Jake’s Progress), takes on the might of Charles Dickens. A master storyteller, Bleasdale affords new views and insights into the timeless tale of the poor boy who asked for more. With a generous but unflinching gaze, he reaches deep into Dickens’ original text and begins his story with the chain of events, skated over in previous adaptations, which lead to Oliver Twist’s anonymous birth in the Parish Workhouse. The result is a drama filled with dark comedy, astonishing vivacity and soaring imagination.