Leeds Playhouse The Victorian orphan is given an even greater sense of exclusion in Amy Leach's excellent production for Ramps on the Moon Brooklyn Melvin's Oliver has a ferocious roar but no voice. Moon-faced and wide-eyed, she plays the Dickens hero as a lip-reading innocent. If Oliver lacks agency in the novel, he is even more adrift here where, without even BSL in his armoury, he has few means to express himself.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PM on March 5, 2020