Recenzii de profil
20…a brisk and expressive reading that in parts is as beautifully phrased and cultured as you will hear.
The cast and conductor, Jeremy Silver, leap on the roller-coaster with abandon... every phrase is taut, every note full of passion, every emotion full-blooded.
Recenzii de producție anterioare
1Imaginatively transplanted into a dystopian South Africa of unspecified date, the Paris-based original fares remarkably well, generating both mirth and pathos. For instance, instead of the romance-promoting powercut of Act One being due to an empty meter, there is the all-too-familiar announcement, “Eskom regrets that…”The downside is impaired credibility when at Christmas (in South Affica???) there are references to freezing cold, with lightly-clad vendors at the outdoor night market cheek by jowl with shivering, heavily muffled-up patrons.Particularly successful are the comic interludes of Acts One and Four in which poverty-stricken men resort to puerile antics to allay their intense hunger and dire living conditions
