Chichester Festival theatreThe performances are strong and the music is beautiful, but they cannot rescue this convoluted adaptation of Jamila Gavin's award-winning children's novel This adaptation of Jamila Gavin's award-winning children's novel about 18th-century foundlings plays out under an aspic glow. But beneath the handsome, period-drama optics lie ugly Georgian attitudes to poverty and dispossessed children. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM on May 31, 2024