Mack and Mabel " review
Southwark Playhouse, LondonDirector Thom Southerland has a long history with Mack and Mabel: he worked on it first in 2005, as an assistant on a stripped-back production in Newbury that transferred to London's West End; then returned to it in 2008, for his own London fringe staging. A man obsessed, particularly with Jerry Herman's admittedly rapturous score, Southerland has blinded himself to the manifold faults of t…