... backclpth of the London skyline, and closes in to create menacing interiors for the workhouse or Fagin's den. It sets the mood well for the familiar story of the workhouse runaway adrift among the low life of Victorian London. It is a mood which is picked ...

... hits have bom barded us over the years to the point where we feel we have been there, done that and even sampled Oliver's workhouse gruel into the bargain. But in this Cameron Mackintosh co-production with the Theatre Royal, Lionel Bart's acclaimed musical ...

... as the parents and Victor Slezak is her cynical but sensible brother. Neil Peter Jampolis' drab set, which suggests a I workhouse rather than a prosperous j Southern mansion, is the only false note. Oleg Kerensky ...

... half-heartedly singing I Shall Scream, with no intention of doing so. There are weaknesses in the opening scenes, with the workhouse boys appearing unsure of their movements, but by the time the team of lads take the roles of Fagin's pickpockets they seem ...

... ago with a £2,000 overdraft, has every reason to be proud. This production marks the opening of its own theatre space, The Workhouse. The school have come of age, and so, apparently has its stu dents. Marina Baker ...

... preface to the work, and it ends with a modern but little known one, which speaks of the Christ-child coming in cold-as-workhouse weather, poor as a Salford child. Although the Cathedral setting was an appropriate one. its size made almost impossible ...

... Sowerberrys and Michael Attwell as a toweringly tall, incorrigibly violent Bill Sikes The extremely important younger element, workhouse boys and Fagin's apprentice thieves, are led appealingly by Marcus D'Amico or Alan Younger as Oliver himself and Stephen ...

... half-dozen or so mature professionals engaged, but the crowd of juveniles in support. The young actors erupted on to the opening workhouse scene like an army of multi-coloured ants. They rushed hither and thither in what looks like uncontrollable confusion, until ...

... amenities may have aggravated the problem but the statement here is that it is people who make the slums not the buildings. The 'workhouse mentality' carry, bred in them, their own destruction. To people like the O'Shaughnessys and the Slaters thieving is the ...