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A fresh collaboration in a style that’s part Dickens, part Drake, Twisted samples from Oliver Twist to create a vivid, urban story about disenfranchised youth in Toronto

Ngabo Nabea, Susanna Fournier; Photo by Rachael McCaig (Factory Theatre)
Twisted

Twisted

By Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman

& JOSEPH JOMO PIERRE

Growing up, Nancy believed in magic despite a hand-me-down life in a small town. So it’s no wonder the buzzing excitement of Toronto and its allure of freedom was a likely choice for her new home, the place she finds herself years later selling her body for drugs. Nancy is further from freedom than ever under the wings of Sikes, a drug dealer and pimp. When she meets Oliver, a seventeen-year-old who lands at Sikes’s feet after a life of foster care and shelters, the two find unlikely solace in each other. As text messages are exchanged by the instant, and truths are revealed, Nancy and Oliver form an unbreakable bond in order to write a new story together.

Production History

Twisted was presented at Factory Theatre on the Mainstage, 2015 (Dir. Nigel Shawn Williams).

It was also presented at National Arts Centre as part of The Hip Hop Festival (2024). 

Published by Playwrights Canada Press

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