Olivia Twist
a modern take on
Olivier Twist
but reset between 1972 and 1991 Birmingham and a suburb of Wolverhampton with Oliver now being a girl, Olivia Twist, and Jack Dodger Dawkins being her boyfriend and an adopted name for Smike from
Nicholas Nickleby
.
The general story has been adapted and modernized from the original Dickens (and a lengthy process) including adapted and modernized extracts from
(Dothhall boys school) and
Great Expectations
(Miss Haversham) and a dream adaptation from
Christmas Carol.
There is also an abridged and modernized
Pickwick Papers
inside
as she does time in prison and where she records audio stories as part of prison work.