A joyful noise? Hell, yes. Alice Walker's Pulitzer-winning 1982 feminist novel set in Georgia and spanning more than 30 years is crammed with suffering, injustice and cruelty. But in its characters' journeys towards a realisation of identity " racial, sexual, spiritual " it is glorious. This musical based on the book received a lukewarm response on Broadway, where it opened in 2005, and admittedly it has its faults. …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:54PM on July 15, 2013