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Oliver Twist

In the style of the Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Nicholas Nickleby

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 95 minutes

  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, High School/Secondary
This faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' second novel is an exciting, fast-moving melodrama about the adventures of an orphan redeemed from a life of cruel poverty and crime by an act of unselfish courage. Filled with an atmosphere of mystery, its major characters -- Fagin, Bill Sikes, Mr. Bumble, Nancy, and the Artful Dodger -- are some of the most theatrically realized characters in all of literature. 

Flexibility is the keyword in presenting this play from the staging, written in the style of the Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Nicholas Nickleby, to the casting, a minimum of 12 to a maximum of your choice, with extensive gender flexibility. 

Characters

  • Casting: 21M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Room for Extras
  • Casting Notes: 21 roles to be played by a minimum of 12 actors (plus extras if desired.)

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This faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' second novel is an exciting, fast-moving melodrama about the adventures of an orphan redeemed from a life of cruel poverty and crime by an act of unselfish courage. Filled with an atmosphere of mystery, its major characters'Fagin, Bill Sikes, Mr. Bumble, Nancy, and the Artful Dodger'are some of the most theatrically realized characters in all of literature. Flexibility is the keyword in presenting this play from the staging'written in the style of the Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Nicholas Nickleby'to the casting'a minimum of 12 to a maximum of your choice, with extensive gender flexibility. Unit set or bare stage.

$19.95

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