An Official Event of San Diego Pride

"Twist" 

A new musical based on Oliver Twist
Book, Lyrics & Additional Music by Gila Sand, Music by Paul Leschen

Directed by James Vasquez

Diversionary Theatre
4545 Park Boulevard, San Diego

619.220.0097

www.diversionary.org

July 9-August 9, 2009

Thursday at 7:30pm; Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm; Sunday at 2:00 & 7:00pm and Monday, July 27 at 7:30pm

Regular Price: $31-$35

Pride Discount: $4 off per ticket by showing your Pride Pass

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego's LGBT Theatre, will present Twist, a new musical based on Oliver Twist.  By turns outrageous, provocative, and emotionally riveting, Twist weaves Victorian erotica, dark comedy and gender-bending into Dickens's famous tale.  Set in 1800s London, Oliver Twist is re-imagined as an attractive young man, still searching for love, but driven by physical desire.  Encountering the flirtatious Artful Dodger, Twist enters an underworld household of prostitutes and pickpockets, ruled over by Fagin, a stunning male dominatrix with a nasty temper.  A unique retelling of a classic, Twist entertains with exquisite drag, arch wit, a bit of kink and a catchy set of new contemporary songs, yet the show remains surprisingly true to Oliver Twist: a coming-of-age tale of loneliness, craving, adventure, and finally, redemption.

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