Consider yourself entertained
8 / 10
Superb lighting by Paule Constable and Ben Jacobs shows the action as if through Oliver’s eyes: a harsh glitter of grey over the workhouse; a deceptive golden glow for Fagin’s den. Lez Brotherston’s busy brown Victorian stock design is unsurprising but efficient. Movement, vocal and visual, is constant: urchins being thrown like parcels; solos blending into choruses. Oscar Conlon-Morrey is a magnificent Bumble – the “chubby hubby” whose voice shakes the stage; Billy Jenkins, as bendy in body as in morals, is lithe and blithe as the Artful Dodger, his jauntiness dipping only when Bill is referred to as his role model: the bad father.
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