Ruth Wilson mesmerises in a 24-hour breakup with 100 different actors; tender moments illuminate a faithful yet distanced adaptation of Annie Proulx’s cowboy love story; and voodoo comes to Regent’s Park
A review by Clive Davis for The Times of London. ★★★★☆Ola Ince is the young director who added onstage warnings about teenage depression and the patriarchy to Romeo and Juliet at the Globe a couple of years ago, so you could be forgiven for wondering what she might inject into a musical about race and class in the…
A modern musical fairytale, Once On This Island is Romeo and Juliet set in the French Antilles with the two lovers on opposite sides of a race and class divide. Regent’s Park Theatre opens its 2023 season with a humdinger of a revival, a real foot-stomper that rings in the ears long after the last song finishes.