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Gina Beck and Julian in South Pacific. Photo by Johan Persson
Is this the most significant production in Chichester Festival Theatre’s history? It certainly feels that way.
Twice I have covered come-back shows as the CFT has stumbled back from the brink of bankruptcy long years ago.
But this feels even more special, a confident, resurgent theatre reasserting itself after a global pandemic which has floored us all.
So let’s pray that South Pacific doesn’t prove a hostage to fortune. Who knows whether Covid isn’t ultimately going to have the final word this time round as well.