Octagon, BoltonBuilding on the success of last year's Oliver Twist, Deborah McAndrew again teams up with composer Conrad Nelson to adapt one of Charles Dickens's sprawling novels. Their carefully filleted story is woven through with new songs and old shanties to create a world that, if less complex than the original, is almost as vivid and engrossing. Two actors (seamlessly meshing adult Geoffrey Breton and, at the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33AM on April 18, 2018