Oliver Twist News

William Miller stars as Oliver Twist in the sixth adaptation for television. Photo: Supplied December 17, 2009 The retelling of a Dickens classic returns to the essence of the original, writes Michael Idato.

What the Dickens is going on around here? North Coast Repertory Theatre in Eureka is currently staging a relatively faithful version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and this coming weekend Dell'Arte opens A Commedia Christmas Carol, while Ferndale Repertory Theatre opens Oliver! - the musical version of Dickens' Oliver Twist.

"Please, sir, I want some more." -- Oliver Twist Apparently, so does much of America.

The drama, which was filmed on location in Yorkshire including sites such as Oakwell Hall and East Riddlesden Hall, was broadcast over the August bank holiday and has proved popular with visitors to the museum: "We've had a lot of interest in the ITV production from visitors, especially with the costumes being on show at the Parsonage.

Top fashion photographer David Bailey once called Lysette Anthony "The Face of the Eighties", but Anthony took the funds from her youthful career as an international model and invested them in acting lessons, eventually.... Top fashion photographer David Bailey once called Lysette Anthony "The Face of the Eighties", but Anthony took the funds from ...

Siezing on the idea of an acting career while in high school, David O'Hara left Scotland to pursue the craft at the age of 17, studying at London's Central School of Speech and Drama.

There didn't appear to be anything wrong with the baby at first. Jackie was somewhat of an oddball.

As graduate-school alumni and several Nobel-nominated professors have noted, Alec Guinness and Queen Latifah don't look anything alike and, as performers, they are polar opposites.