Menier Chocolate Factory, London; Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon; Trafalgar Studios, LondonWhat a difference a time scheme makes. Had Merrily We Roll Along been written with a conventional chronology, this marvellous musical about disappointment would have been sad, sharp but predictable. With the story told backwards, ending in 1957 and beginning some 20 years later, it is far more disturbing. The falling away of love, o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM on December 1, 2012