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PUPPET TWIST

Wallis Knot is developing a new theatrical production based on Charles Dickens' classic novel Oliver Twist. The play, entitled Puppet Twist, is adapted/written by Artistic Director Eileen Connolly and features life-sized puppets as the poor orphans with puppeteers swinging from circus silks. The company began workshopping the new play this summer in collaboration with Roschman Dance as part of a cross-disciplinary experiment during their residency as NYU Guest Artists.

Stay tuned for workshop performance in Spring 2011!

 

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"Wrapped in the blanket he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar.  But he fell into his place at once: an orphan of the workhouse – despised by all, and pitied by none. 
Oliver cried lustily.  I cannot say for certain, although I am his biographer, but if he could have known that he was an orphan perhaps he would have cried the louder."

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MRS. MANN
Goodness gracious!  Is that you, Mr. Bumble, sir?  (Susan, take Oliver and them two brats up stairs, and wash ‘em.)  – My heart alive! Mr. Bumble, how glad I am to see you sure-ly! Will you take a drop of something, Mr. Bumble?

MR. BUMBLE
Not a drop. Not a drop.

MRS. MANN
Now, just a little drop.

MR. BUMBLE
What is it?

MRS. MANN
It’s what I’m obliged to keep a little of in the house to put into the blessed infants’ daffy, when they ain’t well. It’s gin.  I’ll not deceive you, Mr. B.  It’s gin.  I give it to the children, I do.  Ah, bless ‘em, that I do, dear as it is.  I couldn’t see ‘em suffer before my very eyes, you know, sir.

 

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He was cold and hungry, and more alone than he had ever felt before.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

London!  That great place!  Nobody – not even Mr. Bumble – could find him there!  I’ve often heard the old men in the workhouse say that no lad of spirit need want in London.

The very place for a homeless boy, who must die in the streets unless someone helped him.