The Last Ship review – Sting’s sincere but cloying musical stars the man himself – and Shaggy by Monique Ross

Glasshouse Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts CentreSting plays a Wallsend foreman navigating the threat of his shipyard’s closure, taking a renewed version of his musical on an international tourWhen Sting says he grew up in the shadow of a shipyard, he means it literally. At the end of his street in Wallsend, northern England, the Swan Hunter factory dominated the skyline. Each day thousands of workers filed pas…

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