Chichester Festival theatreIt's a story bordered by violence and bigotry, but this vibrant production emphasises the anti-racist message of the 1949 Broadway hit Old shows often pass nervously through today's ideological mettle-detectors, especially when depicting racial and international relations. But Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, a 1949 musical about American military and French economic exploitation of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM on July 14, 2021