Strike Up the Band review " cheese-war satire roasts the American whey by Michael Billington

Upstairs at the Gatehouse, LondonThe Gershwins' upbeat music sits uneasily with a cheerily absurd script in this revival of George S Kaufman's comedy Satire, George S Kaufman said, is what closes on Saturday night. He spoke from bitter experience since this anti-war, anti-capitalist show, for which he wrote the book and George and Ira Gershwin the music and lyrics, died an early death in 1927. It is that version, rat…

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