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Oliver!, Gielgud Theatre review - Lionel Bart's 1960 masterpiece is Bourne again

by Helen Hawkins

An intimate staging and superb casting make this a superior West End production Into a world of grooming gangs, human trafficking and senior prelates resigning over child abuse cases comes Oliver!, Lionel Bart's masterly musical. Is its grim tale of workhouses, pickpockets and domestic violence an awkward fit with today's values? 

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 7:36pm on January 14, 2025