Wednesday 14 March 1990—Saturday 17 March 1990
Charles Dickens’ immortal classic is given a new “twist” in this adaptation by Lionel Bart.
Oliver causes uproar in the orphanage by asking Mr Bumble for more food, so Bumble and Widow Corney decide to get rid of him by selling him to the Sowerberrys who have an undertaker’s business. Noah and Charlotte make life unpleasant for him and he escapes inot the London streets where he falls in with the Artful Dodger, one of a gang of young pickpockets looked after by Fagin, an elderly but astute miser.
Nancy and her friend Bet take a liking to Oliver and are worried that he may be led astray by Fagin and harmed by the violent Bill Sikes, a graduate of Fagin’s academy who is now challenging his old master’s authority and with whom Nancy is infatuated.
When Oliver is arrested at his first attempt at thieving, it would appear that the gallows await various members on London’s underworld…
Principal Cast
- Oliver
- Kieran Peers
- Mr Bumble
- David R. Mitchinson
- Widow Corney
- Helen Aitken
- Mr Sowerberry
- Brian Long
- Mrs Sowerberry
- Gina McCrea
- Charlotte
- Laura Smith
- Noah Claypole
- Thomas Long
- The Artful Dodger
- Paul McElhill
- Fagin
- Gordon Hogg
- Charley Bates
- Frazer Devine
- Nancy
- Alison Waterson
- Bet
- Susan Connolly
- Bill Sikes
- Ian Stewart
- Roseseller
- Edith Wilson
- Milkmaid
- Laura Smith
- Strawberry Seller
- Ruth Gray
- Knife Grinder
- Thomas Long
- Long-song Seller
- Brenda Bacon
- Dr Grimwig
- Brian Long
- Old Sally
- Gina McCrea
- Mrs Bedwin
- Ena Williamson
- Mr Brownlow
- Angus Mackintosh
Chorus
- Hugh Hewitson
- Margaret McDougall
- Margaret Brough
- Isobel Gosland
- Fay Hewitson
- Christine Long
- David McKiver
- Elizabeth Paterson
- Elizabeth Binnie
- Eileen McGuire
- Margaret Coates
- Myra Mackie
- Irene Muirhead
- Jessie Kelly
- Jimmy McKeith
- Bernard J. McKeith
- Anne Gillespie
- Maureen A. McKeith
- Gillian Scott
- Catherine Long
- Angus Mackintosh
- Maria Donohoe
- Mona McDowell
- Pat Mackintosh
- Ena Williamson
- Barbara Kennedy
- Jean Bell
Workhouse Children / Fagin's Gang
- Laura Campbell
- Karen Docherty
- Andrew Wilson
- Lynn McKeith
- Kathleen Redmond
- Eleanor McKeith
- Michelle Porter
- Anne Donohoe
- Elaine Booth
- Kelly Brand
- Martin Bristow
- Claire Campbell
- Joanne Davy
- Laura Fitzsimmons
- Michelle Friel
- Pamela Gallagher
- Alison Hadden
- Mhairi Johnston
- Susan McDougall
- Diane McGown
- Anne McLelland
- Suzanne Mathieson
- Lindsay Miller
- Anne Moreland
- Ross Poole
- Tracy Wilson
Production Staff
- Producer
- Moyra Boland
- Musical Director
- Adrian J. Finnerty
- Choreographer
- Helen M Harris
- Wardrobe
- Margaret Coates Snr
- Props
- Marian Knight
- Props
- Marion Cooper
- Lighting
- Moray Coull
- Sound
- Andrew Butler
- Sound
- Niall Mackie
- Set
- Plus Eight Ltd.
- Make-up
- Irene Buie
- Prompt
- Evelyn Ramage
- Rehearsal Accompanist
- Daniel L. Letham
- Programme/Poster Design
- Bernard J. McKeith
- Printers
- Milton Press
- Tickets
- The Ticket Shop
- Front of House
- Frances Butler
- Front of House
- Robert Mackie
- Front of House
- John Mitchinson
- Front of House
- Bill Shaw
- Front of House
- Edward Donohoe
Crew
- Stage Manager
- Carla Valentini
- Assistant Stage Manager
- Tom Garrett
- Assistant Stage Manager
- Wilma Simpson
- Stage Crew
- Diane Aitken
- Stage Crew
- David Coates
- Stage Crew
- Barry McGuire
- Stage Crew
- James Miller
- Stage Crew
- Brian O'Prey
- Stage Crew
- Gillian Runciman
- Stage Crew
- David Wilkie
- Stage Crew
- Jodie Lewis
- Follow Spot
- David Aitken
- Follow Spot
- Gordon McKerracher