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"From the moment you enter the the dark, workhouse setting for Vermont Stage Company's Oliver Twist...an intimation occurs to you that you are going to experience an extraordinary piece of theatre." Lake Champlain Weekly

"The Vermont Stage production, directed by Jason Jacobs, reverts to a style of storytelling reminiscent of the silent movie era, which followed the early stage melodrama style with music and exaggerated characters and situations. And, largely, in this production it worked beautifully."
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"It's really Dickens talking about a society and government that treats its poor like problems you have to put away, file away," Jacobs said. "You've got the workhouse world and you've got the criminal world and one actually feeds the other." Read more of an interview with Jason in Times Argus

Production Dates: January 26-February 13, 2011
Theatre: Vermont Stage Company, Burlington VT

Production Credits:
Cast: Libby Belitsos, Ethan T. Bowen, Jack Bradt, Bruce Campbell, Chris Caswell, Kevin Christopher, Patrick Clow, Emma Gonyeau, Jordan Gulikson, Seth Jarvis, Taryn Noelle, Robbie Tann, Syndi Zook

Creative Team: Neil Bartlett (Adaptation); Jason Jacobs, Director; David Symons, Composer & Musical Direction; Jenny C. Fulton, Costume & Scenic Design; John B. Forbes, Lighting Design: Jamien Lundy Forrest; Sue Wade, Properties; Paul Ugalde, Fight Choreographer