Oliver Twist: The 1905 Theatrical Adaptation

Originally produced by the legendary Herbert Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty's Theatre, J. Comyns Carr's adaptation of the Dickens novel was a tremendous success with audiences and critics alike. In Comyns Carr version, all of the usual Victorian melodrama was eliminated and he re-imagined the story for modern Edwardian audiences, the results critics noted was with "extraordinary skill" and a "brilliant effort." One reviewer for The Sketch went as far as to write "Comyns Carr has constructed t...