OLIVER TWIST (Ramps on the Moon/Leeds Playhouse)*****

 

By Arran

Link: https://leedsplayhouse.org.uk/events/oliver-twist-at-home

Available until: 20^th November 2021. Available for 48 hours after the date and time of your showing.

Oliver Twist is a really brilliant play from Ramps on the Moon and it is a very important one too. I haven’t read the book (I don’t think even Megan has read it yet and she reads Shakespeare and Jane Austen) so I don’t know how close it is to the original though it is similar to the musical. But this production is not just about turning a book into a brilliant play. It is about showing how capable people with disabilities are.

MISSING PEOPLE (Leeds Playhouse/Kani Public Arts Centre)****

 

 

By Louise

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USAMQlXkILc&feature=emb_logo

Available until: 21^st September 2020

Missing People is a very interesting play by Brad Birch with parts translated into Japanese by Keiko Tsumeda. I think the title refers to a few different things. The characters miss the people who aren’t there. They have also missed the people they haven’t seen for a long time. But I think maybe it’s also about the fact that sometimes, we don’t always see people as they are and that could be a sort of missing people too because we’re missing what is really going on in their lives.