Desperate Measures continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre until 20 December. Star rating: one star ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ Some musical theatre composers like to set challenges for themselves, it seems. Looking for comedic material to adapt? Choose one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’ that, while listed as a comedy, is altogether darker in tone. […]
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New musical Desperate Measures has world premiere at Jermyn Street Theatre
Desperate Measures, a freewheeling new musical based on Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure will receive its world premiere at the Jermyn Street Theatre from 24 November to 20 December. The piece (script/lyrics by Robin Kingsland, music/lyrics by Chris Barton) is set in London in the ‘swinging sixties’ against a backdrop of starchy middle class morality and hypocrisy in a country on the verge of […]
Edges – London Theatre Workshop,
Edges continues at London Theatre Workshop, Fulham until 1 October, followed by one performance at St Paul’s Actors’ Church, London on 3 October. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have come a fair way since this slight, early effort, written a decade ago when they were undergraduates at the University […]
