In August, 2019, residents of Munster Square, a stone's throw from London's Regent's Park, were disturbed by desperate banging on their front doors in the dead of night.
London is in the grip of a knife-crime epidemic. Last year, there were some 14,500 knife crimes recorded in London - almost 40 a day - up from nearly 11,500 in the previous year.
Ben Power’s deft adaptation of Dickens’ sprawling novel emphasises its brilliant characters and eternally relevant themes, but the bleak production and dour music wrestle with one another rather than cohering as a whole