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Oliver Twist

Duration: 100 minutes

Rated: M

The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then apprenticed with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets, which is led by the elderly criminal Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for Dickens's unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid–nineteenth century.

Bend it like Beckham (2002)

Duration: 101 minutes

Rated: M

Jess an 18 year old smart and beautiful can bend a ball better than any boy she knows. She is set on playing for a top women’s team but there’s one problem: her strict parents want her to settle down with a nice Indian boy and learn how to cook!

Everything about this film relates to her transition into a footballer.



Pygmalion (1938)

Duration: 90 minutes

Rated: PG

This movie is about Snobbish Professor Higgins has a wager with his friend Colonel Pickering that with the right instruction he can pass off cockney ‘gutter snipe’ Eliza Doolittle as a ‘lady’ among high society.

PLAYS

Away by Michael Gow

Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler