Unexpected Twist

by Michael Rosen
Adapted by Roy Williams
Music by Yaya Bey and Conrad Murray 

Royal & Derngate and Children’s Touring Partnership (2023)

Designer: Frankie Bradshaw
Lighting: Rory Beaton 
Sound: Leigh Davies
Musical Direction: Conrad Murray 
Choreography: Arielle Smith 
Associate Director: Sarah Stacey 
Fights: Kate Waters 
Casting: Annelie Powell CDG 
Voice & Dialect: Gurkiran Kaur
Production Photographs: Manuel Harlan

Cast
Kate Donnachie 
Alex Hardie 
Rosie Hilal 
Drew Hylton 
Nadine Rose Johnson 
Polly Lister 
Alexander Lobo Moreno 
James Meteyard
Liyah Summers 
Thomas Vernal 

★★★★★“A gripping watch that I would recommend to all my friends” Sardines Magazine 

★★★★“Packs a hefty dramatic punch with an incredible use of music” What’sOnStage

★★★★“Appealing as much to the children in the audience as their parents” Musical Theatre Review

★★★★ “This radical reimagining of Oliver Twist reinvigorates the timeless story” The Stage

★★★★ “A soulful, powerful and lyrical twisting of a classic” Beyond the Curtain

★★★★ ‘An exhilarating, radically inventive piece of theatre… Dacre’s direction is typically clear and vivid.’ The Tablet