Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Adapted by Tony Giddings
Wednesday 26th to Saturday 29th October 1994
The Civic Hall, Trowbridge
Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in a provincial town and is raised under the care of Mrs. Mann and the Beadle, Mr. Bumble. When it falls to Oliver’s lot to ask for more food on behalf of all the starving children in the Workhouse, he is thrashed, and then apprenticed to an undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. Another apprentice, Noah Claypole, insults Oliver’s dead mother and the small and frail Oliver attacks him. However, Oliver is punished severely, and he runs away to London. Here he is picked up by Jack Dawkins or the Artful Dodger as he is called. The Artful Dodger is a member of the Jew Fagin’s gang of boys. Fagin has trained the boys to become pickpockets. The Artful Dodger takes Oliver to Fagin’s den in the London slums, and Oliver, who innocently does not understand that he is among criminals, becomes one of Fagin’s boys.
Directed
by
Tony Giddings
Cast
Agnes
Old Sally
Surgeon
Mrs Mann
Oliver Twist
Mr Bumble
1st Gentleman
2nd Gentleman
3rd Gentleman
Workhouse Master
1st Workhouse Boy
2nd Workhouse Boy
3rd Workhouse Boy
Mr Sowerberry
Mrs Sowerberry
Noah Claypole
Charlottle
Monks
The Artful Dodger
Charley Bates
Fagin
Sam
Bet
Nancy
Bookseller
Mr Brownlow
Labourer
Policeman
Court Officer
Mr Fang, the Magistrate
Clerk of the Court
Bill Sykes
Doctor
Mrs Bedwin
Barney
Mr Grimwig
Toby Crackit
Brittles
Giles
Mrs Corney
Martha
Annie
Cook
Housemaid
Rose Maylie
Doctor Losberne
Hotel Lady
Hotel Porter
1st Hotel Maid
2nd Hotel Maid
Prison Warder
London Citizens
Lilian Bainton
Nadine Comba
Carolyn Dilena
Virginia Havergal
Tom Ludlow
George Russell
Lyn Taylor
Workhouse Children and Urchins
Thomas Dobbin
Daniel Hallissey
Rebecca Hussey
Rebecca Mayo
Letitia McCall
Jack Taylor
Pippa Spurgeon
Ruby Goldsmith
Chris Brown
Mary Saunders
Thomas Button
Graham Cross
Tom Ludlow
Kevin Gale
George Russell
Allan Francis
Alex McCall
Andrew Greaves
Thomas Dobbin
Clive Greaves
Esme Howard
Stuart Greaves
Pippa Spurgeon
Scott Glass
Phil Cooper
James Shadwell
Clive James
Alex McCall
Laura Giddings
Hannah Jeffrey
Virginia Havergal
Steve Alsop
George Russell
Michael Montague-Smith
Phil Allen
Jerry Pink
Allan Francis
Mark Rhodes
Tom Ludlow
Stella Greaves
Peter Mundy
Clive Greaves
Jerry Pink
Kevin Gale
Chris Brown
Angela Giddings
Virginia Havergal
Lyn Taylor
Virginia Havergal
Sarah Shadwell
Maria Cassidy
Michael Montague-Smith
Nadine Comba
Tom Ludlow
Jayne Mould
Rebecca Mayo
Allan Francis
Neil Cadmore
Maria Cassidy
Gill Cooper
Kevin Gale
Esme Howard
Peter Mundy
Mary Saunders
Andrew Greaves
Vashti Hallissey
Neil Hussey
Alex McCall
Kathleen McCall
Jayne Mould
