The King And I, EdinburghFirst seen at the Curve in Leicester last Christmas, Paul Kerryson's revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical about a prim Victorian school teacher at the court of Siam is certainly a handsome affair. It's a production that shies away from confronting the show's doubtful politics and cultural stereotyping (foreigners are cute at best; savages at worst) and concentrates instead on the score …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on December 23, 2011