🎵 Beatboxing, R&B, soul, rap and grime with a story fit for the streets 🎤
If you love all things beatboxing, R&B, rap, grime, soul music and just hanging out with your mates doing cool stuff, then this is the show for you. We look forward to welcoming you to the Theatre Royal in Nottingham and we've even got a discount code for tickets, just for you and your crew.
Unexpected Twist is the re-telling of the Charles Dickens classic, Oliver Twist, by one the best-loved figures in the book world, Michael Rosen. Rosen’s story and the Dickens classic that inspired it, become two stories that twist together, unexpectedly!
Shona and her class are studying the book, Oliver Twist. She’s the new girl in school and is finding it hard to stay out of trouble – much like Oliver himself! When she’s given a new phone by a stranger, she begins to suspect there’s something unusual about the new boys she’s met.
Conrad Murray, who brings such cool music to the show said: “Working on this show is like assembling The Avengers! Being able to bring beatbox, hip hop and grime to the show is sick, as it helps modernize the story and create a new language and theatrical form on the stage. Can’t wait for audiences to see and hear it.”
See Conrad's Beat Box workshop video below and have a go yourself.
Michael Rosen (Writer) said: “I can’t describe what a thrill it is for me to know Unexpected Twist is going to be a play. I’ve already seen a draft script and it leapt off the page. I could immediately ‘see’ it as being a funny, tough, edgy, contemporary, powerful show. I am desperate to see it.”
James Dacre (Director and Artistic Director of Royal & Derngate Theatres) said: “Take Charles Dickens’ masterpiece, Oliver Twist and add the literary magic of Michael Rosen and the theatrical verve of Roy Williams to tell this classic story in a radically new way. Mix with Conrad Murray and Yaya Bey’s breath-taking contemporary beatboxing, R&B, rap, grime and soul music. The result? Unexpected Twist is a joyful family tale which weaves the streets of Victorian London into the school corridors of contemporary Britain.”
Bring your crew for a night of unexpected twists!
